Hey There,
My name is Idan Beck and I’m an entrepreneur.
It doesn’t help that I can’t even spell that word — but only after 5 years have I started to really identify with it. I’ve tried everything, but no matter what every time I type it out I get that squiggly red line underneath and there’s that spelling mistake again. Hopefully AI will get so good that I’ll never have to spell again anyways — I found that I can now touch type without looking because it’s already pretty good, not that I can actually touch type without looking but the keyboard seems to know what I mean to say… 80% of the time it works every time.
Over the past few years I learned that I have a communication problem, or better worded a problem with communication. I’m decent enough communicating to myself (1 to 0), with another person (1 to 1) and even with a few people (1 to [2:5]). I even had some decent experience talking/performing in front a lot of people live — but when it comes to blogging and the internet I always start to write something and never quite finish it. I always try to collect enough good news, or stuff that “people want to hear” and by the time I’ve figured that all out the time has gone and past and I don’t post it. Maybe that was good for personal development?
So I’m writing something, to rip the band aid off so to speak. This is how I start big software/hardware projects, or projects in general. I set the bar low enough that anything I do is a mini success and then I can use that momentum to iterate and accomplish larger and larger outcomes. It seems to work pretty well, I’m not good at celebrating success though — so I might be wrong, I feel like I’ve never actually accomplished anything before to be honest.
So this is me, honest, weird, rambly and direct. Sometimes I have interesting things to say, most of the times it’ll likely be boring — you’ve been warned!
Oh, I should probably actually introduce myself, but the short story about me is I really like to build new things. I’ve been obsessed with computers and technology from the age of three, and I’ve spent most of my life discovering how differently I tend to think about stuff which is usually pretty painful. Over the past few years I had the awesome experience of building some truly terrific things like the gTar and Keys. I’ve done a bunch of other stuff in that time (and before), and now I’m starting a new project too in VR which I’ve been dreaming about since I was in high school (my last company being an attempt at building it, but moved into music instead a few years in).
So hello, nice to meet you — this was a pretty useless post but like I said above (and if you’ve read this far you may have read) I had set some low expectations for this post and hope to make each one better. I suppose I learned this lesson from my rabbi at a young age in a funny way. He told me, “Idan, every day of my life is better than the one that comes before it. In that way, the day that I was born was the worst day of my life and the day that I die was the best day of my life”.
