✨ Future Distortion Field - by Avni Patel Thompson
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Matters of practicality when trying to build the Future while living in the Present.
“Live in the future and build what’s missing.” This remains the simplest and most actionable advice I’ve come across for figuring out the problems I want to solve and the products I want to build. In the earliest days, before incorporation forms and pitch decks, before cap tables and wireframes, this vision takes form in daydreams and doodles. In the twilight moments before you drift to sleep and as you come awake. This is the process of obsession so many founders talk about. The obsession exists as a living, breathing future world. One that you can see and feel and walk around in. Until…
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