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John Collison: "We only had 50 users two years after founding Stripe."
alex • John Collison: Not an Overnight Success
Productivity is often a distraction. Don’t aim for better ways to get through your tasks as quickly as possible. Instead aim for better tasks that you never want to stop doing.
Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
Spend less time focusing on "discipline," and more time in things that genuinely pull you forward...
The person who requires internal force, will always get lapped by someone with genuine drive toward that thing.
Obsession beats discipline all day long.
Dr. Julie Gurnerx.comNot pouring your whole soul into your work is anti-life. In art, in business, in all endeavours alike. Do you think Dostoyevsky ever had to use the Pomodoro technique to get himself to write The Brothers Karamazov? Do you think Steve Jobs, when he created the Macintosh, was focused solely on finding the cheapest parts and lowering overhead costs?... See more
Blondx.comThe ultimate competitive advantage is loving what you do. In the long run, it’s hard to beat someone who loves the game.
Kyle Tibbittsx.com“I think people think of design as how something looks. But that’s a superficial definition—it’s how something works,” says Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky, who says he called Ive as soon as he saw his resignation announcement from Apple and asked to be one of LoveFrom’s first clients. Chesky, who studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, adds,... See more
Jony Ive • Jony Ive on Life After Apple
“My deepest insecurity is that I have these intuitions about things that I cannot explain to anyone,” Kushner told Rubin as they sat in his garden overlooking the ocean. “Sometimes I see or experience something and it makes sense to me, I fall in love, but I cannot explain why. Like when Thrive invested in Instagram or Spotify or OpenAI. I could... See more
