Abhilash Rao
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Abhilash Rao
Trusting Your Gut
My favorite advice about the role of feelings in decision-making is this short Quora post by Auren Hoffman (founder/CEO of LiveRamp). The concise summary of the advice is: “You should trust your gut to avoid things, but you should use data to decide to take action.”
My favorite advice about the role of feelings in decision-making is this short Quora post by Auren Hoffman (founder/CEO of LiveRamp). The concise summary of the advice is: “You should trust your gut to avoid things, but you should use data to decide to take action.”
Stay SaaSy • Advice That I Can't Get Out of My Head
Look at Google. Its heartbeat is erratic, unpredictable. It works for them—mostly, sometimes—but it could work so much better. Google arguably only has one big external heartbeat each year at Google I/O—and most teams don’t bother aligning with it. They typically launch whatever they want whenever they want throughout the year, sometimes with real
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Take a position: The best way to position a brand is through a structured approach versus The best way to position a brand is through an unstructured approach.
Kevin Lane Keller • Marketing Management, 15/E With Indian Case Study
When physical vigor fails with age, for example, it means that one will be ready to turn one’s energies from the mastery of the external world to a deeper exploration of inner reality.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
“What’s preventing you from achieving your ten-year goals inside of six months?” — Peter Thiel
What are the real obstacles that are preventing you?
Don’t arbitrarily try to achieve goals in predetermined time frames.
Compress your timelines.
In six months, you'll be thanking yourself.
What are the real obstacles that are preventing you?
Don’t arbitrarily try to achieve goals in predetermined time frames.
Compress your timelines.
In six months, you'll be thanking yourself.
Alex Banks • Sunday Signal: Tesla’s new Optimus demo, random walks and Steve Jobs’ career advice
how to run a community
Luck plays such a big role in the world. But it’s hard to talk about. If I say you got lucky, I look jealous. If I tell myself that I got lucky, I feel diminished.
Maybe a better way to frame luck is by asking: what isn’t repeatable?
Maybe a better way to frame luck is by asking: what isn’t repeatable?
Collaborative Fund • Lucky vs. Repeatable
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3 examples of persuading with reciprocal concessions