Summary
Obsidian, a bootstrapped company, has a slogan that the author loves. The author discusses their preference for bootstrapped companies over open source projects and mentions a great write-up by the founder of Readwise about how niche apps have smaller capacities. The author reflects on an article by Gergely Orosz about lessons from bootstrapped companies and notes that bootstrapped companies tend to fly under the radar due to their lack of big media budgets. The author also mentions the expansion of Obsidian’s team and the company’s rebranding with a new slogan. They express their skepticism about AI’s ability to make people smarter and emphasize the importance of keeping perspective by reading history.
Highlights
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I worry that people are getting too excited about what is, from a workflow perspective, fundamentally improved search and proofreading