Andy Matuschak: belief

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…Interesting. What was the consequence of shipping Orbit out before it felt ready to scale? I mean, I learned some things. It was fine. It taught me a lot about where that particular format succeeds and fails in other venues. It was just not a very effective way to find those things out. It was an MVP in the sense that it has very few features and it's very simple. But it was highly general. It's a deployed thing that has infrastructure and has accounts, it has all this stuff that you do when you're building a real thing. That's very different from, “Let me work with this one author and see if I can make it work with this one other book that's very different from Quantum Country to form a specific question or specific theory about, it worked for this text, what's the next kind of text that would be good to test with?”. I certainly could have done it much more rapidly. Why do you think that this idea of tools of thought has nerd sniped so many people in Silicon Valley?…

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