Beverley
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I am a Technology Entrepreneur quietly building humble but handy Internet businesses.
Beverley
The Meanest Startup Advice I Ever Gave Catapulted My Friend Into the Top 10% in His Industry
“What if I told you that in order to be in the top 10% of certain industries, all you have to do is show up and market your business every single day? That won’t work for every startup, but in some spaces, it will put you ahead of the pack.”
I strongly dislike giving unsolicited opinions or advice to those who haven't requested it. However, I've inherited a trait from my parents that earned them both respect and resentment. While I strive to express it with more tact, that trait is an unshakable moral drive to be brutally honest… almost all the time.
“My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it — all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity — , but to love it…” ― Nietzsche"
“One might propose that the entire profit motive behind the genre of creative work made up by brand, marketing, and design is to drive behavior change. We enable customers to do something new — whether by informing them that an option exists, or making it more attractive and effective to choose that option over others.”
“Several academic studies have found that the question isn’t whether luck exists. It’s whether you think it does.”
“So, while it may seem counterintuitive, the study shows that believing in luck boosts your confidence in your ability to control future outcomes. If you had a winning streak in the past and you believe in luck, you’ll likely try, try again.”
I think we all want to be heard and music is a way to let out our inner emotional life, sometimes in a way that can’t necessarily be understood any other way. It functions different than prose or storytelling in that the music has an emotional base to it, even without the words. So you can feel this energy and express whatever’s going on inside of
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- Steve Jobs once said, “ The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller . The storyteller sets the vision, values, and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.”
from Generalist Capital: In Search of Epics | The Generalist by Mario Gabriele
- At first Hertzfeld thought that Tribble was exaggerating, but after two weeks of working with Jobs, he became a keen observer of the phenomenon. “The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand,” he said.
from Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
phrase, now famously used in reference to Steve Jobs, “reality distortion field”, where the hype or belief in something is an illusion of its actual state.
from The Person in Personalisation: The Story Of How Marketing's Most Treasured Possession Became Anything but Personal by David Mannheim
When members of the Mac team got ensnared in his reality distortion field, they were almost hypnotized. “He reminded me of Rasputin,” said Debi Coleman. “He laser-beamed in on you and didn’t blink. It didn’t matter if he was serving purple Kool-Aid. You drank it.” But like Wozniak, she believed that the reality distortion field was empowering: It e
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