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Deric Yee

Hey! I'm Deric, the founder of Sigmaschool, the modern alternative to tech education. I share thoughts on business, product, and whatever else is on my mind. Email @ deric.yee@gmail.com

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Play the long game

Most people play the short game today. In a world where everyone wants quick wins, playing the long game and reap its rewards. Do what everyone else is doing = get same results everyone else is getting. Basically if everyone goes left and you go left, you should expect average results

Keep it human

The internet is completely dehumanized. Texts, videos, graphics, more and more things are created by AI as we speak. The one that hit me the most is the hiring process. Applicants use AI to: write applications, mass apply to hundreds of jobs Hiring managers use AI to: screen candidates, negotiate

Don't outsource thinking to AI

Wrestle with the ideas yourself. Clarify your thinking. If AI writes it, AI did the thinking, not you. Don't take the easy way out. "No one can compete with you on being you" - Naval Ravikant Who you are as a person, is your biggest moat

Give a damn

In the past 5 years, I've interviewed and hired more than 100 people. I've always been bootstrapping and so we don't have excess cash flow to splurge. I interview every one we give an offer to. Throughout my experience interviewing people, I've

Great talents

Your best employee is going to quit. Because you keep hiring people they have to carry. A-players want to work with A-players. Every mediocre hire is a resignation letter to your top performer. So stop optimizing your hiring for risk reduction. Stop hiring resumes. Stop filtering for pedigree and years

Less is more

I used to think more = better. After 6 productive years in business and in exploring life, I now have the opinion that life should be improved both by adding, and by subtracting. Not just by having more. Less is more, most of the time. The world, economy, social norms, is

Learn to write

I used to think writing was just a communication skill. Something useful for blogs, marketing, or explaining ideas to other people. I was wrong. Everything is writing. * When you delegate tasks to your team. * When you negotiate deals with people * When you send an onboarding document to prospective employees * When

The only time to start a business

Wanna make coffee? You need to do a few things first. You probably need to get the beans before you turn on the coffee machine. You probably also need to steam & froth milk before you pour the milk in for a nice cup of Latte. This is the same

Irrational

When people do things that make no sense, it doesn't mean they're stupid. They just didn't make sense to you. It may have made perfect sense to them. They see something you don't, be it right or wrong. * Steve Jobs insisted on

Small teams

I used to think bigger companies have it all figured out. That’s until I started joining the workforce, and realised theres no “secret” to doing work, and the most valuable things need to be “figured out” by key owners at some point in time. Once I built my own

Unlearn

"The only constant in life is change" The beginning of a new life, the end of one, new information gets launched, new competitors come in, older ones die out. Beliefs that were true are now false. They were based on old limitations that are now gone. The market