Founders that are willing to take on problem areas that are unappealing because it seems like a lot of work is a moat.

A Pew Research Center Survey found that 61% of remote workers who have a company office say it’s their choice not to work from there.

When joining a new team, a common piece of advice is to “gain credibility” by doing undesirable tasks others don’t want to do.

Visionaries pushing some form of utopia are defined by their pessimism.

We do not yet know what we have not discovered and trying to know the unknowable (prophesy) leads to pessimism.

A good churn rate for a B2B company serving small and medium businesses (SMB) and mid-market businesses (< 1000 employees) is 2.

You can spot bad explanations similar to the way you can spot bad arguments using the Münchhausen trilemma.

All problems are soluble with the right knowledge. That doesn’t mean we know the solution already, but that the pursuit of good explanations will lead to progress towards one.

The essence of problems is when two ideas come into conflict with each other.

There’s a Finnish saying that the “dogs are barking but the train keeps going” meaning that people will always be talking about you but it doesn’t matter.

Knowledge and technology go hand-in-hand but they should not be confused for each other.

Techno-optimists believe technology can solve the world’s most pressing problems. With the right knowledge, we can find solutions to climate change like abundant clean energy.

It can be difficult to empathize with others without direct experience.

As products and services become commoditized, distribution and companies that help distribution become more important.

The user is complaining that our boat is leaking through the windows, it’s unstable, and too slow.

In a thought experiment from The Beginning of Infinity, the author introduces a universe traveling device.

The Turing-test is rooted in the idea that a human can judge whether something is an Artificial Intelligence merely by the behaviors it exhibits during the test.

Many people don’t find compliance to be a particularly interesting area to work on.

The jump to universality has two phases. Before universality, one needs to create specialized objects.

Computers can be programmed to do anything a model of computation can express.

Given the choice between taking responsibility for lack of success in a given arena and blaming others for keeping you down, many will choose to blame others.

In 2021, 5.4 million applications for new businesses were filed. This rise in entrepreneurial activity coincides with the Great Resignation and the COVID-19 global pandemic where people are re-evaluating their relationship with work.

A common pattern for launching products and companies is to start with an invite-only beta.

The real world and it’s behaviors are extraordinarily complex. To theorize and create good explanations necessarily requires some encapsulation of ideas through abstractions.