November 4, 2023

What Elephants Taste Like

When I wrote Befriending the Goon Squad — an essay on the importance of patience and discipline when building a product — I received dozens of variations of the following question:

So how do you stay disciplined? How do you avoid getting distracted by new ideas or dismayed by bad weeks, even when you only have a few users?

I wrote an essay attempting to answer exactly that. The name of this essay is What Elephants Taste Like.

Please read it and let me know what you think; I hope your weekend is going well!