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The funnel of opportunity is wider than most people think, but the filter of execution is far narrower than most people realize. Ideas are not the scarce resource; disciplined follow-through on a single idea, long past the point of comfort, is what almost no one can sustain.
— Keith Rabois, Stanford How to Start a Startup lecture series (2014)

1w ago

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

2w ago

lennysnewsletter.com

🧠 Community Wisdom: How AI is changing product operating models, tracking work stress with Whoop, whether you need a portfolio of AI side projects, marketing for tiny teams, and more

There's a reality here that you simply do not stay up to date on what everyone is doing. You'll spend all your energy keeping tabs instead of doing the work you actually should be doing.

4w ago

lennysnewsletter.com

Building an iPhone app with zero technical skills | Bryce Rattner Keithley

Bryce proves that in the AI era, execution is no longer the constraint on good ideas.

1mo ago

ai-supremacy.com

What if there's only One Major AI Winner?

This isn't a model or compute story, this is a product execution and business strategy story.

1mo ago

ai-supremacy.com

OpenAI's Momentum is Spiraling Down ▼

While Google and Anthropic have executed well in their Generative AI efforts, OpenAI has fumbled their priorities while losing considerable marketshare over the last year.

2mo ago

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

2mo ago

stratechery.com

An Interview with F1 Driver and Venture Capitalist Nico Rosberg About the Drive to Win

if we're not able to understand the car, set it up properly, be at least street smart about all these things, then it doesn't matter how talented you are, you'll never be able to go fast.

3mo ago

upstartsmedia.com

Robots! Drones! How DoorDash Is Building In Autonomous Delivery

A trap a lot of these kinds of research labs or hard tech labs fall into is they start with the technology first, build that in a vacuum, and then they try to figure out what use cases to try to fit it into later. Whenever that happens, it always feels like the product isn't quite the right fit.

3mo ago

themarginalian.org

Diseases of the Will: Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gift

No one would deny the fact that he who knows and acts is the one who counts, not he who knows and falls asleep. We render a tribute of respect to those who add original work to a library, and withhold it from those who carry a library around in their head.

3mo ago

lennysnewsletter.com

How I built LennyRPG

In my experience, nailing the core idea and PRD determines 80% of how smooth the rest of the build will be.

4mo ago

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