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...ideas that someone must believe that are not obviously, self-evidently true. An existence proof of the thing working in the wild helps make a thing obviously true. When you're trying to do something big and novel, sometimes you feel like you wan...
...ng in your set are: Existing products in your portfolio Pre-existing prototypes Existence proofs of viable products from competitors Team strengths The larger the inventory, the more likely there's a chocolate-and-peanut-butter game changing com...
..., but the right garden with the right structure can cause it to emerge. It's an existence proof.
...s. WhatsApp and iMessage set the bar and now it's table stakes. Once there's an existence proof of a thing that has no downsides but is more private, users will demand it. E2EE is one of those things that doesn't add friction, it just makes it b...
...an interesting way or so bloated that they never get off the ground. There's an existence proof that it's possible to balance on that knife's edge, to find explosive growth with simplicity[abq], but that doesn't mean it's easy to do. It's an eme...
... level quality. This is tremendously exciting! A few months ago we had only one existence proof of GPT4 level quality. It was totally possible that we'd only ever get GPT4, which would lead the ecosystem to a very different, highly centralized o...
...e only know something is on this side of the adjacent possible when they see an existence proof. You can see through the adjacent possible just a bit. It's like a frozen waterfall. Crystal, warped, but things just beyond it you can see if you lo...
...continuously viable machine, not a brute-force engineering approach. There's an existence proof of a similar scale system that runs far more efficiently (our brains); from here we can continually improve the artificial, brute force approach.
...is is a large wild garden that one entity has significant control over. It's an existence proof of an aggregator that grew as a platform. But it's a distracting black swan; extremely hard to do that from a standstill. It's best to ignore it as a...
A single existence proof of a thing makes it much easier for others to try, too. Without an existence proof, a wide-open ocean might be a blue ocean… or a dead ocean. If it's...
...r-linearly more expensive with the size of the group to align. When there is an existence proof in the world to point to, coordination gets orders of magnitude easier. "We want to do something like that, but with these tweaks." Everyone can see ...
...s way more valuable than an intricate, grand doc. A successful experiment is an existence proof of viability to double down on. Don't judge teams by how many small, safe experiments fail. Judge teams by how many experiments succeed and can be bu...
...s get stuck in the mundane filter of real world viability. But when you have an existence proof that it works, you can focus entirely on the real question of "is the potential value we could create from this starting point worth the direct and i...
...out of the use case for the kinds of things that might be valuable based on the existence proof of one ad hoc real world use case. Many of those things you might build based on that hypothesis might be high-risk if the hypothesis turns out to be...