Conversations with an 8yo

Sempi gets very creative when he’s building Lego structures. So I asked him about it.

Me: How did you get so good at building these lego creations, Sempi?

Sempi: I don’t know, I just like building things.

Me: Would you say that I should just keep building things and I’ll get better over time?

Sempi: It is easy to create something for yourself. You know what you want and you can make a place for a boat or an airplane in your creations. It comes easily when you know what you want.

This sounded vaguely familiar and then I realized this is a paraphrasing of one of Paul Graham’s advice about startups.

Build something you yourself want.