The Role of Luck

There was one Twitter influencer who wrote a thread dedicated to AudioPen. I don't know where he found the product. I've never spoken to this person before. I didn't even follow the person. I never heard of them. But he was kind enough to like write a whole thread on how people could use it. And that, you know, got me a large number of users. And that's when things— and that had nothing to do with me. Like I was just building the product, also flirting with the idea of building other products at the same time. But once that happened, that's when I was like, okay, this is it. I got to figure this out. Let's see where it goes. Yeah, it goes to show the amount of— it goes to show that luck does play a role in anything that happens about them. I don't know, but this was one that happened to get that dose of luck, and I'm grateful for that.

So on that topic, I was recently reading Paul Graham's How to Do Great Work.