I distilled the entire history of how @eldsjal and @MartinLorentzon built Spotify over 20 years into a 90 minute podcast.
Download all the lessons, ideas and stories from Spotify directly into your brain:
https://t.co/yMpgYAYDIH
I stole this idea and now use it with every single employee.
It’s the best illustration I’ve seen of teaching someone to be high agency.
It says there are 5 levels of work:
Level 1: “There is a problem.”
Level 2: “There is a problem,... See more
As you go through your day, you build momentum.
The more productive actions you take, the easier it feels to keep going (up until a point when true fatigue sets in).
Likewise, the longer you being lazy, the harder it is to get yourself to break out of the laziness and put forth... See more
A poet once said, “The whole universe is in a glass of wine.” We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and... See more
Physics is the most fundamental and all-inclusive of the sciences, and has had a profound effect on all scientific development. In fact, physics is the present-day equivalent of what used to be called natural philosophy , from which most of our modern sciences arose. Students of many fields find themselves studying physics because of the basic role... See more