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D, Distribution doing things that don’t scale and but surprisingly have a shit ton of momentum. At zero work there is zero momentum.

by Larry Chiang on June 3, 2024

 
 
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#DTTDSbhm

Do Things That Don’t Scale BUT HAVE MOMENTUM

⁦‪@paulg‬⁩ had a lecture on #cs183b Lec 3. But #dttds was sooo painful that he didn’t speak of it until Question #13. Then, the lecture title was changed postmortem. @davidgomez__ pic.twitter.com/TVp8aQV8xQ

 
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My mentor Paul Graham, says, “do things that don’t scale, but have momentum”
#EUTWMPPM 
Paul Graham famously wrote an article called do things that don’t scale 
What he means by that is to bring in customers by burning a lot of time trying to bring in new customers for your start up.  at first it’s going to seem like your startup will never scale. Momentum when you’re at zero customers will be zero momentum
This is why a hashtag Exists Called #EUTWMPPM 
Engineer up a title wave of momentum, perpetual promotion machine 
As computer science majors, I used Larry Chiang’s signature business protocol to be able to “do things that don’t scale, and later get a shit ton of momentum”. Lecture one to 20 #CS183D
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Lec 2 
#cs183b

Paul Graham’s lecture never talked about “Do Things That Don’t Scale” 

#dttdsBHM

Do Things That Don’t Scale (BUT HAS MOMENTUM. pic.twitter.com/x2bZ2vkleP

 
5/2/22, 3:04 PM
 
 
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The way that women attempt distribution is understandable given their circumstances. 

But men have no excuse in “doing things that do not scale, But Have Momentum” #dttdsBHM

#cs183d pic.twitter.com/bqDvwLsI3f

 
1/5/20, 10:32 AM
 
 

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