july

Talking with @jtgi today reminded me of this classic tweet

the secret ingredient to almost everything good is simply giving a shit

Visakan Veerasamy

memebuilding • prev manifold.xyz, twilio.com

Talking with @jtgi today reminded me of this classic tweet 

https://x.com/visakanv/status/1439938701283397632?s=46

> The one place in the world you get this vibe is probably Japan. Most people just really care. Patrick McKenzie refers to this as the will to have nice things. Japan has it, and the US mostly does not.

In Japan, you get the impression that everyone takes their job and role in society seriously. The median Japanese 7-11 clerk takes their job more seriously than the median US city bureaucrat. And the result is obvious if you visit both places.

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building roc.camera, writings: july.rocks

> The one place in the world you get this vibe is probably Japan. Most people just really care. Patrick McKenzie refers to this as the will to have nice things. Japan has it, and the US mostly does not.

In Japan, you get the impression that everyone takes their job and role in society seriously. The median Japanese 7-11 clerk takes their job more seriously than the median US city bureaucrat. And the result is obvious if you visit both places.


https://grantslatton.com/nobody-cares

The hard part is the tech / SV machines truly believe they’ve hacked this with formulaic ways to acquire customers and scale. They have a survivorship bias smoked blueprint for everything. 

There is one formula and one path to build amazing shit, care more than everyone else and prove it with output. 

What it’s not:
- SEO
- marketing ploys and content
- growth hacks 
- PR, conferences, speaking gigs
- buying customers
- LTV analytics based only first degree events

What it is:
- quality
- support for every customer regardless of their LTV 
- servant based leadership