Samuel Colvin: belief

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…I would say, yeah, definitely for sure. There's a scene and, you know, one way to really fail at this is to just be involved in that scene. And have that eat up your time, but be at the right events and the ones that I'm running are good events, hopefully. What I say is like, use those things to produce high quality content that travels in a different medium than you normally would be able to. Because there's some selectivity, because there's a broad, there's a focused community on that thing. They will discover your work more. It will be highly produced, you know, that's the pitch over there on why at least I do conferences. And then in terms of talking to people, I always think about this, a three strikes rule. So after a while it gets repetitive, but maybe like the first 10, 20 conversations you have about people, if the same stuff is coming up, that is an indication to you that people like want a thing and it helps you prioritize in a more long form way than you can get in shallow interactions online, right? So that in person, eye to eye, like this is my pain at work and you see the pain and you're like, oh, okay. Like if I do this for you. You will love our tool and like, you can't really replace that. It's customer interviews. Really. Yeah. I agree entirely with that. I think that I think there's a, you're, you're right on a lot of that. And I think that like, it's very easy to get distracted by what people are saying on Twitter and LinkedIn. That's another thing.…

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