Mike "Bagel"
@bagelpuc
Small Business Counselor, Podcaster, Writer, Connector
Mike "Bagel"
liveyourvalues.co
A helpful syntax:
[I/We] + [verb] + [people] + [achieve a result]
verb could be help, unlock, teach, nurture etc,.
people: who do you work with? or help? leaders, visionaries, mom’s and pop’s, the next generation.
achieve a result: what do you help these people accomplish?
If life is short, we should expect its shortness to take us by surprise. And that is just what tends to happen. You take things for granted, and then they're gone. You think you can always write that book, or climb that mountain, or whatever, and then you realize the window has closed. The saddest windows close when other people die. Their lives... See more
Paul Graham • Life is Short
It’s hard to create wealth unless you work well with others, and it's hard to work well with others if you are unlikable.
Even if you can build wealth without kindness, rich jerks end up poor in friendship. You can buy friends, but not good ones.”
3-2-1 Thursday newsletter - James Clear • 3-2-1: Kindness, intellectual humility, and learning from others
If the work feels like a drag, you're doing it wrong
30 Lessons From Art / Business / Life — Kening Zhu
Oooo yes. Attitude is everything.
trying to make money off a creative pursuit they truly love.
And often doing those alone. (Or in a glass cage at a “coworking space”.) The traditional idea of a “9-5 office” is declining … along with a built-in structure to meet new friends with similar interests, face- to-face.
And along with guaranteed socializing every day.
static1.squarespace.com • LONELINESS REPORT FINAL
I’ve always had this sense that if you build a container for something, you will make things to fill it. What I frequently do is try to figure out different containers. A website is a container.
The Forbidden Zone
The weird thing is that the word “leader” itself is cliché and boring, but when you come across somebody who actually is a real leader, that person isn’t cliché or boring at all; in fact he’s sort of the opposite of cliché and boring.... See more
Obviously, a real leader isn’t just somebody who has ideas you agree with, nor is it just somebody you happen to
David Foster Wallace on Leadership, Illustrated and Read by Debbie Millman
“There was, between the front door and the offices, a swing door which creaked when it was opened; but she objected to having this little inconvenience remedied, because it gave her notice when anyone was coming.”
— Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
— Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport