#28 I Die, Therefore I Am
Since Iāve started on SSRIs, there arenāt 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 itās hard to even understand. If youāre using LLMs daily, maybe you can relate to this experience. The felt sense of using AI now is magical - I didnāt 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. ...
#27 š¤·āāļø Why do a marathon to do a startup?
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? ...
#26 Typecharm is live
In December last year, I had finished a proof concept for a chrome extension that determines peopleās DISC personality type based on peopleās 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 Iāll talk about how that went, what progress I made since then, and whatās next. šUser 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 numberās game and itās important to aim for something ambitious to at least get to something workable. ...
#25 Who knows you the best?
Hi and welcome to another post on my entrepreneurship journey. This is the last post for 2023, so letās get right to it. š¶āš«ļøOctober In my previous post, I mentioned how I was still talking to someone from my last founding team about building something together. That didnāt work out - hard to find a common topic. I had a few other co-founder dates but none that grew into something more. ...
#24 Wrapping up two projects
Hi and welcome to my wantrepreneurship blog! The past two months have been yet another roller coaster that ended inā¦ well it didnāt end the way I hoped. I wish the title of this blog was āFirst customers using the app - learningsā, but todayās post is more of a post-mortem. In fact, itās two post mortems in one. However, thatās not a bad thing (well not completely). In 2023 alone, I can count 5 projects and/or teams that Iāve started and stopped, so far. Even if they didnāt grow to become āreal thingsā, 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. ...