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The man who is perpetually hesitating which of two things he will do first, will do neither. The man who resolves, but does not execute his resolution, has not yet learned the use of his will.

— William Benton Clulow, Horae Otiosae (1833)
2mo ago

The biggest misconception in business is that insight is rare and execution is common. In my experience, it's exactly the opposite — workable ideas are everywhere, but people who can execute even a single step beyond the obvious are vanishingly scarce.

2mo ago

The man who is perpetually hesitating which of two things he will do first, will do neither. The man who resolves, but does not execute his resolution, has not yet learned to think.

3mo ago

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.

4mo ago

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

4mo 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.

5mo ago

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

6mo 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.

6mo 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.

7mo ago

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