midwits

this one will get a lot of hate & disagreement but i think one of the biggest mistakes this industry has made is funding yappers, ie., VCs funding thinkbois & founders thinking they need to post multiple times a day & have an opinion on everything to remain relevant 

this leans somewhat into the overblown concept & emphasis surrounding attention

do you think zuck or bezos or jobs or whoever where posting over intellectualized opinions & daily learnings in their early days 

still to this day, the vast majority of our most effective ceos & founders do not do this—most don’t even want to provide opinions on earnings calls: they want to stick to operations, they want to be black & white 

outside of one or two 30-minute conference chats a year, which from my experience, most tend to loathe anyway, leaders do not yap; they run companies

not until these leaders have successfully exited a multi decade run do they even entertain a book or sharing their learnings

this industry conflates the two

yappin in /midwits & creating idle rpg /animarising

There’s truth to this but maybe founders need to balance the two.