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{"user_id":2,"source":"https://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/1376985854229504007","source_type":"tweet","title":"Andrew Wilkinson on Twitter","description":"This is a story about how I lost $10,000,000 by doing something stupid.Ten. Million. Dollars.Literally up in smoke. Money bonfire.That’s enough to retire with $250,000+ in annual income.Here’s what happened…— Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) March 30, 2021\n\n","html":"\u003c!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd\"\u003e\n\u003chtml\u003e\u003cbody\u003e\u003carticle class=\"article-tweet\"\u003eThis is a story about how I lost $10,000,000 by doing something stupid.Ten. Million. Dollars.Literally up in smoke. Money bonfire.That’s enough to retire with $250,000+ in annual income.Here’s what happened…— Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) March 30, 2021\n\n\u003c/article\u003e\u003c/body\u003e\u003c/html\u003e\n","hash_id":"i6TwKgjTYKbH","author":"Andrew Wilkinson","reading_time":"1 min read","link_sharing":true,"archived":false,"favourited":false,"folder_id":2,"tag_list":[]}

{"user_id":2,"source":"https://twitter.com/sumitgrrg/status/1387018274488000512","source_type":"tweet","title":"Sumit Grrg on Twitter","description":"You can go to business school, spend two more years of your life, spending $100K or so in bills, or you can just listen to Steve Jobs.I’ve read his biography every year for the last 10 years.Here's what I learned about startup, marketing, creativity, career, life, and more:— Sumit Grrg (@sumitgrrg) April 27, 2021\n\n","html":"\u003carticle class='article-tweet'\u003eYou can go to business school, spend two more years of your life, spending $100K or so in bills, or you can just listen to Steve Jobs.I’ve read his biography every year for the last 10 years.Here's what I learned about startup, marketing, creativity, career, life, and more:— Sumit Grrg (@sumitgrrg) April 27, 2021\n\n\u003c/article\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e\u003carticle class='article-tweet'\u003eCustomers don’t know what they want until you show it to them.\n \nWhen Jobs unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter asked him what type of market research he had done. Jobs replied: “Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?”\n \nThink different.\u003c/article\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e\u003carticle class='article-tweet'\u003eTurkish Coffee? So Fucking What?\n \n1/2\n \nWhen someone in Turkey tried to explain to Jobs how Turkish coffee was made very different from anywhere else, Jobs thought, “So fucking what?”\n \n\"Who in Turkey even gave a shit about Turkish coffee?\"\u003c/article\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e\u003carticle class='article-tweet'\u003e2/2\n \n\"When we’re making products, there is no such thing as a Turkish phone or a music player that people in Turkey would want that’s different from one people elsewhere would want.”\n\n“We’re just one world now.\"\u003c/article\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e\u003carticle class='article-tweet'\u003eBuild the phone you want to use.\n \nApple knew the iPod was going to be successful because they could see how badly they each wanted one personally.\n \nWith the iPhone, they were excited about building a phone that they would personally want to use.\n \nIt's the best motivator.\u003c/article\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e\u003carticle class='article-tweet'\u003eMake progress by eliminating things.\n \nJony Ive, who was the Chief Design Officer at Apple explains, \"To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.\"\u003c/article\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e\u003carticle class='article-tweet'\u003eThe lifeboat.\n \n1/2\n \nIf you could take only a few employees on a lifeboat to your next company, whom would you bring?”\n \nOnce a year, Jobs took his top 100 employees on a retreat. In the end, he would ask them, \"What are the ten things we should be doing next?\"\u003c/article\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e\u003carticle class='article-tweet'\u003e2/2\n \nPeople would fight to get their suggestions on the list. And Jobs would write them down, and then slowly cross them off until they were left with a list of ten.\n \nThen he would slash the bottom seven and announce, “We can only do three.”\u003c/article\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e\u003carticle class='article-tweet'\u003eDo a few things well.\n \nDeciding what not to do is as important as deciding\nwhat to do. It's as true for companies, as it’s for products.\n \n\"We all have a short period of time on this earth. We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well.\"\u003c/article\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e\u003carticle class='article-tweet'\u003eMake art.\n \n“I hate it when people call themselves “entrepreneurs” when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on.\"\n \nProducts, not profits, should be the motivation.\u003c/article\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e\u003carticle class='article-tweet'\u003eIf you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will.\n \nThe iPhone was partially created to prevent other smartphones from taking over the iPod market.\u003c/article\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e\u003carticle class='article-tweet'\u003eGreat artists steal.\n \nIn 1979, Apple shamelessly borrowed a couple of major features from Xerox, made major improvements, and used them on their next-gen computer.\n \nIn the process, they also proved that good execution is almost as important as good ideas.\u003c/article\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e\u003carticle class='article-tweet'\u003eThe greatest salesman.\n \nJobs' pitch to justify 99 cents for a song on iTunes:\n \nDownloading a pirated song from the internet took about 15 minutes rather than a minute on iTunes. So by spending an hour of your time to save 4 dollars, you’re working for under the minimum wage.\"\u003c/article\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e\u003carticle class='article-tweet'\u003eI summarize the best of my 20-hour read-weeks in tweets. \n\nIf you like what you read follow me @sumitgrrg for more. \n\nAlso, since many of you are into crypto, let's see if I can get some love and support directly in my wallet: grrg.eth\u003c/article\u003e","hash_id":"HvwYYQQ5hqCa","author":"Sumit Grrg","reading_time":"4 min read","link_sharing":true,"archived":false,"favourited":false,"folder_id":2,"tag_list":[]}