Spilling wine on a carpet is easy.

2026-04-27 · Bits and Bobs 4/27/26

Spilling wine on a carpet is easy.
- Taking spilled wine and putting it back in the cup, clean, is a magic trick.
- It requires running the universe against its normal gradient and plucking something novel and new out of the opportunity space.
- That magic trick is what a startup does when it gets PMF.

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