Junseong Park @jsparkdev

@rubbishstweets By 'bet', I mean: - Learn deeply, build in my spare time, with the plan of becoming a top 10 world expert in it - Make tons of free materials to show off my knowledge - Build courses I can only make so many bets in my career

If you want to get rich on X, it isn't going to be through creator revenue or meme coins. Instead, think about one subject matter that you know more about than anyone else in the world. It can be anything: plumbing, menswear, Indian food, furniture, social apps, whatever. Post…

If you're in high school and you want to start a startup one day, you might think the best thing to do now is to start startups. But it probably isn't.

Networking is so overrated. Doing interesting things... Attracts interesting people.

You don't find what you're passionate about. You create it. You build it. You invest energy into a goal. You become great at something. You stick with it whether you feel like it or not. You aren't going to be passionate about something you have zero experience in.

Peter Thiel on why shortcuts worked perfectly for Boomers but are “deadly” if you’re a Millennial Thiel believes the effectiveness of “shortcuts” in life oscillates from generation to generation: “It’s a good idea to take shortcuts in a world where nobody takes shortcuts. In a…

Google searches for "give car back" are at near all time highs LMFAO

A chromium wrapper sold for $600M. A VSCode fork is valued at $10B. Yet you still want to build everything from scratch. Find the gap.

The memes are on point today

Did you know travel and booking websites like SkyScanner sometimes make their searches a bit slower on purpose? This way, people feel the site is really “working hard” to find the best deals. If results show up too quickly, users might think the search wasn’t done properly. A…

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Success is a long-tail game. Switching your focus every 6 months will bring you nowhere.

Peter Thiel on advice to his younger self: “Before getting swept up in the competitions that define so much of life, ask yourself whether you even want the prize on offer.”

Good marketing is the transfer of enthusiasm, as @jasonfried says. But that transfer isn't a one-off. If you want to build momentum, you have to keep transferring.

Find a problem so big that you can spend at least 10 years of your life on, but that you can also demonstrate incremental progress towards.

the 9-9-6 local maxima trap you can optimize for looking busy, hitting metrics, being “productive” – but you might be climbing the wrong hill entirely. real breakthroughs happen in the spaces between. when you’re walking and your mind wanders. when you sit with a problem long…

martin_casado @martin_casado

a week ago

the 9-9-6 local maxima trap you can optimize for looking busy, hitting metrics, being “productive” – but you might be climbing the wrong hill entirely. real breakthroughs happen in the spaces between. when you’re walking and your mind wanders. when you sit with a problem long…

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Hard pill for devs. ~ Java is still being used a lot especially in the financial industry. ~ PHP still runs a big chunk of the web and is not going anywhere. ~ JavaScript is still being regarded as more of a frontend language. ~ Python is still the main language for scripting. ~…

Not surprising. It’s an enormous privilege to find someone who is willing to pay you to satisfy your intellectual curiosity. In other words, he needs to find someone who is willing to pay him to work on whatever he’s interested in. That’s rare.

sky @skydotcs

a week ago

Not surprising. It’s an enormous privilege to find someone who is willing to pay you to satisfy your intellectual curiosity. In other words, he needs to find someone who is willing to pay him to work on whatever he’s interested in. That’s rare.

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Jeff Bezos explains how he decided to quit his job and start Amazon At 30 years old, Jeff Bezos had great Wall Street job working at the hedge fund D.E. Shaw. When he told his boss David Shaw about his idea to start an internet book store, David replied: “I think this is a good…

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