You need to neglect mostly everything to win big

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There is an infinite number you can improve or tweak to give customers a better experience or sell more. A popular type of tweet is this: “It’s ridiculous how [[successful business]] fails at [[surprisingly basic thing]]”. Haha, LinkedIn thinks “Self-Employed” is a company. “Atlassian is a $50b market cap company and you can’t input rich text into a ticket creation window.” “The fact that you have to use your personal facebook account to manage a business ad account is unbelievably idiotic. How is this a $900b market cap company?” What are the thousands of engineers at these companies even doing, right? What are they spending all the money they’re making on? I’m totally guilty of that type of thinking too. There is so much stuff broken with almost every product I’m using. It’s sometimes hard to believe just how broken everything is. Now one lesson here could be that the bar is still low and you still win pretty easily just by building something that’s not completely broken. But there’s

Your business is either a magical money printing machine. Or it’s an endless source of interesting challenges. Usually it’s more of the latter. And that’s kind of cool. As long as you’re running a business you’ll never be bored again. There’s always something to do. There is an infinite number you can improve or tweak to give customers a better experience or sell more. A popular type of tweet is this: “It’s ridiculous how [[successful business]] fails at [[surprisingly basic thing]]”. Haha, LinkedIn thinks “Self-Employed” is a company. “Atlassian is a $50b market cap company and you…

You need to neglect mostly everything to win big

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