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#28 I Die, Therefore I Am

Since Iā€™ve started on SSRIs, there arenā€™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 itā€™s hard to even understand. If youā€™re using LLMs daily, maybe you can relate to this experience. The felt sense of using AI now is magical - I didnā€™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. ...

<span title='2025-02-18 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>February 18, 2025</span>&nbsp;Ā·&nbsp;10 min

#27 šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø 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? ...

<span title='2024-09-17 18:35:39 +0200 CEST'>September 17, 2024</span>&nbsp;Ā·&nbsp;2 min

#26 Typecharm is live

In December last year, I had finished a proof concept for a chrome extension that determines peopleā€™s DISC personality type based on peopleā€™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 Iā€™ll talk about how that went, what progress I made since then, and whatā€™s next. šŸ”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 numberā€™s game and itā€™s important to aim for something ambitious to at least get to something workable. ...

<span title='2024-09-17 00:00:00 +0000 UTC'>September 17, 2024</span>&nbsp;Ā·&nbsp;4 min

#25 Who knows you the best?

Hi and welcome to another post on my entrepreneurship journey. This is the last post for 2023, so letā€™s get right to it. šŸ˜¶ā€šŸŒ«ļøOctober In my previous post, I mentioned how I was still talking to someone from my last founding team about building something together. That didnā€™t work out - hard to find a common topic. I had a few other co-founder dates but none that grew into something more. ...

<span title='2023-12-22 19:24:56 +0200 +0200'>December 22, 2023</span>&nbsp;Ā·&nbsp;4 min

#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 didnā€™t end the way I hoped. I wish the title of this blog was ā€œFirst customers using the app - learningsā€, but todayā€™s post is more of a post-mortem. In fact, itā€™s two post mortems in one. However, thatā€™s not a bad thing (well not completely). In 2023 alone, I can count 5 projects and/or teams that Iā€™ve started and stopped, so far. Even if they didnā€™t grow to become ā€œreal 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. ...

<span title='2023-10-05 09:17:24 +0200 CEST'>October 5, 2023</span>&nbsp;Ā·&nbsp;5 min