Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Reading every DM is worth the time even when you cannot reply to them all, because it is where you learn what to fix, whom to hire and where to invest.
Drawn from what Guillermo Rauch said
Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Guillermo Rauch said
I read every DM people send me, even if I don’t reply to all. I’m constantly learning about new ideas, ways to improve our product, where we’re falling short, who could join our company next, where to invest… very grateful for the @x platform.
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Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?
I hold this tooCannot both be true
Durov says the more connected and accessible you are, the less productive you are, and offers it as the conclusion of somebody who founded a social network and a messaging app. Rauch reads every DM he gets, even the ones he cannot answer, because it is where he learns what to fix and whom to hire. Two founders, opposite policies, same inbox.
In tension with
A hard limit on how long you are online is what makes the time online focused.
Sivers keeps a hard limit on how long he is online, and says the limit is what makes the time focused. Rauch treats an unbounded inbox as a source of information worth the hours. Both are describing what they do rather than what anyone should do, and the two practices do not fit in one week.
Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.