grammar and stuff

Author: Hallicopter

_posts/2022-02-27-intersection.md

@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ It is indeed true that if you eat enough ghee every day, your customer acquisiti
 
 If you read and thought about the opener for this essay, you'd realize that it makes no sense. You'd be sensible in thinking that. In all probability, that is a sentence that has never been put to ink (or pixel) until today. Sure, it may be a stupid sentence, but it is a creative one. This (or rather, *these kinds of sentences*) motivate me. Being all of twenty-three, I carry within me the naive hope that I would bring value to this world by doing something different. Building something game-changing[^1]. 
 
-I find safety in knowing all permutations are not exhausted. Anyone could have thought of my opening sentence. But nobody did. It's because there are a trillion other (more useful) sentences that people would write. I like to think of these "brand new sentences" as an analogy for stuff; stuff ranging from startups to books to side-projects. As a builder of things, a thinker of ideas, I like to think that my current ideas  are closer to gibberish sentences that nobody has ever spoken before. A potential exception could be [InternetBlogCo](https://internetblog.co/), which is an idea that has been implemented in some, but for all intents and purposes, is a unique idea. And considering I have a [user](https://internetblog.co/atharva/) who truly likes the service, the idea may even be _good_. Now enough of this silly little analogy.
+I find safety in knowing all permutations are not exhausted. Anyone could have thought of my opening sentence. But nobody did. It's because there are a trillion other (more useful) sentences that people would write. I like to think of these "brand new sentences" as an analogy for stuff; stuff ranging from startups to books to side-projects. As a builder of things, a thinker of ideas, I like to think that my current ideas  are closer to gibberish sentences that nobody has ever spoken before. A potential exception could be [InternetBlogCo](https://internetblog.co/), which is an idea that has been implemented in some forms, but for all intents and purposes, is a unique idea. And considering I have a [user](https://internetblog.co/atharva/) who truly likes the service, the idea may even be _good_. Now enough of this silly little analogy.
 
 ### Enough TAM for us all
 
-The world has 8 billion people. That's an insane number of people. Whatever you make, and yourself enjoy, you will find an audience for it. It may not be a huge audience, but it will be an audience nonetheless. Nothing proves this hypothesis of mine better than the website [Indiehackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/). Let's take an example to illustrate my point (an example that blew me away when I first read about it last year).
+The world has 8 billion people. That's an insane number of people. Whatever you make, and yourself enjoy, you will find an audience for it. It may not be a huge audience, but it will be an audience nonetheless. Nothing exemplifies this hypothesis of mine better than the website [Indiehackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/). Let's take an example to illustrate my point (an example that blew me away when I first read about it last year).
 
 #### OilPriceApi.com
 
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 <p style="text-align:center"> Monthly revenue for OilPriceAPI.com </p>
 
-"Let me build SaaS for find live crude oil prices" was, in this case, the sentence that had never been uttered before. And it was just sensible enough that he found a consistent paying user base for his service. 
+"Let me a build SaaS for find live crude oil prices" was, in this case, the sentence that had never been uttered before. And it was just sensible enough that he found a consistent paying user base for his service. 
 There are thousands of projects, businesses, and startup-like these who have managed to find a niche that resonated with more people than you'd think. And the funny thing is, many times, these "niches" may not even be niches. It's hard to think of a world without Github, Gitlab, or other online version control services, but none of these services existed just about 14 years ago. "What if we had a shared online version control server as a service" was an unheard-of sentence.
 
 Another interesting way of thinking here is that one good idea could be really close to another, un-explored good idea. Ideas beget ideas. Paul G, aka the hackerest hacker in the game, says in his essay "Startups = Growth"[^4]
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 ### The (metaphorical) carrot at the end of my (metaphorical) stick
 
-My personal and career goals are dictated by cultivating experiences that put me in the top 25%ile of a set of skills. There are so many skills in the world. I just need to be in the top 25%ile in two to three of them. Today, within my network of friends and peers, I like to think of myself as one of the best programmers who can write prose. While that distinction doesn't mean much, it gives me hope in creating other such distinctions that would mean a lot and make me very valuable.
+My personal and career goals are dictated by cultivating experiences that put me in the top 25%ile of a set of skills. There are so many skills in the world. I just need to be in the top 25%ile in two to three of them. Today, within my network of friends and peers, I like to think of myself as an above-average programmer, and an above-average writer, resulting in me being one of the best programmers who can write prose. While that distinction doesn't mean much, it gives me hope in creating other such distinctions that would mean a lot and make me very valuable.
 
 The world has so many possibilities. Take a bit of *X* and throw in a bit of *Y*, and you have something special all of a sudden. Peloton came from the question "What if I could attend [Soul Cycle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoulCycle) classes anytime, anywhere?". Apple came from the question "What if I could have a computer at home?". Cisco came from the question, "What if networks could network with other networks?". These were, at the time, new ideas. These ideas manifested into real world entities because of talented people who were either the best in their field, or above average in many fields [^3]
 
-This is the (metaphorical) carrot at the end of my (metaphorical) stick, there are so many ideas yet unexplored, and maybe one day I could be bringing one of these ideas to the real world.
+This is the (metaphorical) carrot at the end of my (metaphorical) stick — there are so many ideas yet unexplored, and maybe one day I could be bringing one of these ideas to the real world.
 
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