Was getting pissed off at some product launches I saw in the feed today, so I wrote this:

Markets and Morality

A few decades ago, you might have been able to convince yourself to be a PMF merchant, selling whatever goods and services to the highest bidder. If you were religious, you might consider if the product was sinful, but rarely did you think further than…

jihad

Was getting pissed off at some product launches I saw in the feed today, so I wrote this: https://x.com/jaesmail/status/1877759937729753122

shaping the ideas that shape us /native /believein 🇵🇸

I love you, but this is too many fancy words to say that:

You can chase PMF by strictly trying to see what user's will adopt irrespective of how it shapes human society. But you have a responsibility through the available leverage in this day and age to create a better future, and not just one that makes number go up.

Chasing Curiosity. Pluralist. Empathetic Accelerationist. Founding Fullstack Engineer @icebreaker. YC S16, KB7. 
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Yes, that’s what I meant by ‘available leverage’.

lol yeah probably too many words, but the other part of the argument is that in the past you might not have had that responsibility (“i can’t change the market/world, so i have to do what the market wants!”) but today i think that excuse no longer applies

sometimes you need to write all the words to get to the point you were trying to make all along