Guillermo Rauch Quotes

Focus on the things you can control. Work hard, eat well, stay fit, help others, and crucially: be ruthlessly truth-seeking.

llms.txt and MCP feels like the beginning of the AI internet protocol stack.

As these conventions proliferate, the network gets more powerful and intelligent, and a lot more applications become possible.

Don’t overthink it. Build products that bring joy to people, in their personal or professional lives.

Immortality is attained by having children, leaving the world in a better place than you found it, and pushing the human frontier. Not by drinking “longevity mix powder”.

The secret to product quality is blood sweat and tears

When someone asks me for a meeting, I try to solve the problem at that exact moment.

I ask for the details, context, pitch, question in place, or if it’s important enough, I call them right away.

You’ll be amazed how many things you’re putting off by weeks, with the transaction costs of calendar management, emails, zooms, that can just be figured out… right now.

Find a problem so big that you can spend at least 10 years of your life on, but that you can also demonstrate incremental progress towards.

Underrated: interns. The valley runs on cracked interns

Some people think perfectionism is at odds with shipping fast. Wrong. Shipping fast is how you get closer to perfection.

There’s something deeply satisfying about doing a great job, to the best of your ability. No matter whether you’re a solo entrepreneur, or at a hot startup, or massive company. Entry level or VP. The first recognition has to come from yourself.

The long way is actually the shortcut

Love is the most important force in the universe. Love for your family, friends, neighbors, art, mission, knowledge, company, country, world. Without love, there’s no humanity.

Fitness is the true “rich get richer” equation of life. The more you work out, the stronger your mind and body, the easier and more effective the next incremental workout

There's an app I use regularly that's defective. I'm weighing in my mind whether I should send feedback and hope it gets attention from its creators, or re-build it with AI from scratch.

This is a tiny app so it's plausible for me to do it. But if you're in the business of selling software, this is how your every customer is thinking now, or how they'll be thinking soon.

Iteration velocity matters more than ever before. How quickly you fix, improve, and ship is your counter-signal.

What you name your product matters more than people give it credit. It's your first and most universal UI to the world. Designing a good name requires multi-dimensional thinking and is full of edge cases, much like designing software.