berlin

manoj pandey

thesis

six things i believe about work. one about the world.

Manoj walking down a street in Berlin, smiling

how i work

  1. 01

    craft over volume

    making things is cheap now. taste & care are not. i would rather ship one thing that feels considered than ten that feel generated.

  2. 02

    keep showing up

    relationships, partnerships & communities grow from consistency. every partnership i have built worked for the same boring reason - i kept showing up.

  3. 03

    a little delulu

    experts tend to grow jaded about the future. shifting the zeitgeist takes undying optimism. i keep mine on purpose.

  4. 04

    question the default

    "that is how everyone does it" is the shortest route to average. i ask too many questions & think from first principles - the easiest way to avoid competing at all.

  5. 05

    brevity

    short emails. short meetings. short talks. if i cannot say it in one sentence, i do not understand it yet.

  6. 06

    strong opinions, loosely held

    i have plenty. i hold them loosely & update them when new information shows up.

irl, in the age of ai

ai is making us more socially distant. all the more reason to touch grass & do things irl - meet your friends, write letters, play chess.

taste & curation are among the hardest things for ai to get close to. if you have a special interest, pursue it. build your own taste.

"the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena."— theodore roosevelt

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