Britt Gage
@brittfgage
Founder, of All Trades. Building a new type of company for generalists and the founders we seek to serve.
Britt Gage
weofalltrades.com
A better way to attract and build an audience is to create a world people want to inhabit .
André Chaperon • Tiny Worlds: A Manifesto for Sovereign Creators—Attract, Build & Curate an Audience of True Fans
End every meeting or conversation with the feeling and optimism you’d like to have at the start of your next conversation with the person. If you envision running into this person again and how you want that to go, it’ll undoubtedly influence how you navigate a present conversation — usually for the better
The 100 Best Bits of Advice From 10 Years of First Round Review
The problem you solve for customers is increasingly one they can’t even articulate for themselves . The ones that are easy to understand have already been built and funded over the last 20 years. Building something of true excellence will require a hungrier engagement with the world
Evan Armstrong • Want to Build? Technical Excellence Won’t Be Enough.
It can help to reverse the polarity of our relationship with new ideas. We often treat them with reverence; before long, confirmation bias sets in and we begin looking for reasons why they will succeed and ignoring evidence suggesting they might fail. A common failure mode is to jump on the first idea and get started—this is probably the worst... See more
Problem choice and decision trees in science and engineering: Cell
... See moreSometimes, it’s possible to reduce the bad parts. But that takes considerable focus, effort and commitment. It’s not free. You can’t expect them to go away on their own.
It might not seem like a feature to you, but the bad parts are often the flip side that allows the other part to exist.
And sometimes, the bad parts are built into the system
HOW TO LEARN ANYTHING*1. Deconstruct the skill: - decide exactly what you want to be able to do when you're done, and then look into the skill and break it down into smaller pieces.
2. Learn enough to self correct: - learn just enough that you can actually practice and self correct or self edit as you practice.
3. Remove barriers to practice: -... See more
TEDx Talks • The first 20 hours -- how to learn anything | Josh Kaufman | TEDxCSU
The larger the scale of work, the longer it takes. As a result, break work down into milestones to communicate at key moments and incrementally deliver otherwise.