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My favourite indie hacker advice

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.

-- Richard Feynman

  • "I'm going to launch and everyone is going to shower this with upvotes!"
  • "I'll just ship this thing and customers will definitely throw money at me!"
  • "Of the thousands of ideas I already had this is the great one I will follow through on!"
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Product Development
on May 29, 2020
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    I recognize this. I wonder how does one recognizes the inner fool?😜

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      Another Feynman quote: "if it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong."

      So you gotta experiment. I think that's the only way to know which ideas are foolish and which are great. Let reality be the guide.

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        I agree, every action I take nowadays I do with the thought in my head "I can better fail a 1000 times to know what works and doesn't".

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    Build it for the right reason.

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