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Since I’ve started on SSRIs, there aren’t many things that bring the cortisol-spike knot-in-my-chest back. This tweet did. Hello anxiety, old friend. Cost of intelligence goes poof The cost of intelligence is on a path to becoming negligible. Large Language Models are improving so fast that it’s hard to even understand. If you’re using LLMs daily, maybe you can relate to this experience. The felt sense of using AI now is magical - I didn’t get any invitation to Hogwarts, but this is a close second. Advanced voice mode is NGL mind-blowing. That I can call ChatGPT mid-way through cooking a julienne to ask how to substitute wheat flour (with a French accent, please, thank you) is baffling. ...

My main goal this year is to reach ramen profitability with TypeCharm. The odds are against me. Most startups fail in the 1st 2 years. Time to revenue can (did!) stretch beyond the initial rush of optimism and willpower. How to trick my brain to put in the effort for its own sake, suspending judgement? What could I do that pushed my performance to the limit, with more certainty for a pay off? ...

In December last year, I had finished a proof concept for a chrome extension that determines people’s DISC personality type based on people’s LinkedIn profiles. The plan was to spend the following two months (January and February) on user discovery - understanding what my potential customers really need. In this post I’ll talk about how that went, what progress I made since then, and what’s next. 🔍User discovery for a personality analysis app My goal in user discovery was to talk to 100 people by the end of February. I knew from the start that this was unrealistic. But this is a number’s game and it’s important to aim for something ambitious to at least get to something workable. ...

Hi and welcome to another post on my entrepreneurship journey. This is the last post for 2023, so let’s get right to it. 😶‍🌫️October In my previous post, I mentioned how I was still talking to someone from my last founding team about building something together. That didn’t work out - hard to find a common topic. I had a few other co-founder dates but none that grew into something more. ...

Hi and welcome to my wantrepreneurship blog! The past two months have been yet another roller coaster that ended in… well it didn’t end the way I hoped. I wish the title of this blog was “First customers using the app - learnings”, but today’s post is more of a post-mortem. In fact, it’s two post mortems in one. However, that’s not a bad thing (well not completely). In 2023 alone, I can count 5 projects and/or teams that I’ve started and stopped, so far. Even if they didn’t grow to become “real things”, giving up on each of them was hard. But every time, I learned a new way to let go, which is an important spiritual and emotional skill. ...