Brian Sirgutz
@brian
Now: Ampathy / Starling Lab @ Stanford School of Engineering
Fmr: SVP of Huffington Post
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Take, for example, the ambition to “make your venture-backed startup profitable”: to develop, market, and distribute a product or service that’s never existed before, in a form that’s valuable and accessible enough for large numbers of people to want to pay you for it, in sufficient quantity that your revenue consistently exceeds your costs.
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Gena Gorlin • The Psychological Needs of the Extremely Ambitious
Don’t forget .. quickly
Note to Self:
You need silence to imagine a brighter future. Your mind requires boredom to carve out a destiny for yourself.
In a world full of distractions, boredom is no longer a mere “productivity hack”—it’s one of the highest virtues.
Protect your boredom. At all costs.
Indecision is a decision to fail later rather than act now.
There are just 100 days left in 2023.
Here are 23 ideas to make the most of them:
1. Default to 25-minute calls/meetings (instead of 30 minutes) and take a simple walking or breathing break during the 5 minutes.
2. Batch email and message processing into 1-3 condensed windows during the day.
3. Build a deep work practice by blocking 60-... See more
" You never change things by fighting the existing reality. T o change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller