My First Million
The best business ideas come from noticing what's working and doing it better, faster, or for a different audience.
“I'd rather be dark matter founder than not try”
What It Means
Better to attempt something transformational and fail in obscurity than to play it safe with incremental ventures
Why It Matters
Reframes failure at ambitious goals as preferable to success at trivial ones, enabling higher-risk/higher-impact decisions
When It's True
For people with financial security who can afford to fail and want to maximize potential impact
When It's Risky
When you have dependents, lack financial cushion, or haven't proven yourself with smaller successes first
How to Apply
Use as decision framework for choosing between safe and ambitious paths
Remember that some of history's most important contributions came from 'failed' attempts
Focus on the magnitude of potential impact rather than probability of success
Example Scenario
“Choosing to build supersonic jets despite high failure probability because the potential impact of success outweighs the risk of joining the ranks of unknown ambitious failures”
Related Knowledge
Bystander Effect in Business Opportunities
A cognitive bias where obviously valuable problems get ignored because everyone assumes someone else must already be working on them, leaving trillion-dollar opportunities hiding in plain sight.
Pasta Extrusion Self-Development Framework
A methodical approach to reshaping yourself into the person capable of achieving an ambitious goal by identifying the specific 'hole' you need to fit through and systematically acquiring the required skills and attributes.
First Principles vs Pattern Matching Decision Framework
A systematic approach to understanding problems by going to root causes and fundamental physics rather than relying on rules of thumb, analogies, or conventional wisdom.
Build deep technical credibility from scratch in a complex field
Ability to have detailed technical conversations with experts, catch BS from supposed experts, and make informed technic
Make strategic decisions by working backwards from likely future scenarios
Clear conviction about which path to pursue based on which future you'd be proudest to have contributed to
Emotional Piggy Bank for Difficult Projects
Every struggle and setback you push through deposits a quarter in an emotional piggy bank, which you get to break open w