Adam Durst
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Adam Durst
/// 100 QUESTIONS /// to gain clarity via Alex Morris:
Why are we doing this?
Ask that of yourself and the team with regularity.
What’s the simplest explanation?
What reaction should all the creative achieve?
What’s your most controversial opinion?
What little frictions exist that might bleed out the work if allowed to compo
A sign of wisdom is choosing not to believe everything you think. A mark of emotional intelligence is choosing not to internalize everything you feel.
Thoughts and emotions are possibilities to ponder, not facts to accept. We don’t always invite them in, but we do decide whether they deserve to stay.
Thoughts and emotions are possibilities to ponder, not facts to accept. We don’t always invite them in, but we do decide whether they deserve to stay.
Successfully commercializing does not mean launching with certainty. It means launching with a set of assumptions that you quickly test. Your assumptions will be informed by earlier tests and will, hopefully, be directionally correct, but it is a big mistake to assume that your pricing, packaging, messaging, ideal customer profile, marketing tactic
... See moreSean Gillispie • Commercialize: How to Monetize, Sell, and Market Productized Offerings in B2B Professional Services
We say that a symbol stands for something, but all too often a symbol merely stands in for something. The American flag is supposed to stand for freedom, but it can very easily stand in for freedom. In singing the anthem, we treat its values as permanent, or as if they were enacted by song. But praise is not practice.
Timothy Snyder • On Freedom
It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society. The individual who investigates is also the citizen who builds. The leader who dislikes the investigators is a potential tyrant.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
So what is The Inverted Pyramid, and how will that help?
This writing structure allows you to write first drafts within minutes using fill-in-the-blank prompts.
It also captures readers’ attention immediately and keeps them engaged until the end.
Here’s how it goes.
This writing structure allows you to write first drafts within minutes using fill-in-the-blank prompts.
It also captures readers’ attention immediately and keeps them engaged until the end.
Here’s how it goes.
- You give us the most important part of the article by answering these questions: Who?
Maya Sayvanova • How Journalists Write So Much, So Fast
Stoics do not seek to have the answer for every question or a plan for every contingency. Yet they’re also not worried. Why? Because they have confidence that they’ll be able to adapt and change with the circumstances.
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Only people can be free. If we believe something else makes us free, we never learn what we must do.
The moment you believe that freedom is given, it is gone
