The Portugese brute-forced their way to the Indies by dropping padrões along the East African coast. Think of this as indie hacking.

The Spanish, via Columbus, sailed west with huge amounts of uncertainty. Call this venture capital.

When scaled, each model often falls into familiar antipatterns. For indie hackers, that's pettiness and contentment. For VCs, cowardice and saturation.

Inside the constraint of inductive proof, AI lets us build bigger increments. We work bottom up, but always mortgage our success to reach terra nova. Make money (indie). Then, make more (venture). Innovation by induction.

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