Britt Backos

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant."
-ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

the definition of self-control was to choose the important over the urgent

"Education teaches you to analyze. Entrepreneurship teaches you to create.

The educated mindset is great at dissecting and criticizing. What did Shakespeare mean here? What were the major forces of this historical period? What is the limiting reagent in this chemical reaction?

The entrepreneurial mindset is great at building and improving. Design a b

we consume so much, now, that perhaps we don’t know what it means to exist as something unsellable. i had to give up journalling because i couldn’t stop writing for the people who would read it after i was dead.

Productivity is too narrow a lens for our days. It flattens the day to a plan, an order, an outcome. When the day takes a different shape, we find ourselves coiled in a spiral, narrowing in on ourselves and our
shortcomings.

Make the problem smaller before you make it bigger.

Picture your perfect character arc and light everything else on fire to get it.

A smell doesn't have a reference, only a story.

If you don’t let the idea die, the idea will get stronger over time.