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
More than anything else it was this feeling that captivated me—the feeling that, literally, made me captive.
I Felt Important
Knowledge is a process, not a possession
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Why I have an antilibrary (the power of unread books)
On becoming and
On building an anti-library and the power of unread books
Prioritize trust: If your team is asking you to use a decision-making framework on many decisions, it could be a sign they don’t super-trust your judgment. Before running every decision through a framework, dig into this potential issue. You’re better off long-term getting things done through influence and trust, versus jumping to a framework. That... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • My favorite decision making frameworks
Another emotion I picked up in myself and in others is what feels like we’re floating in space a bit. Since the change is so fundamental and a lot of things aren’t figured out, it’s quite hard to navigate yourself within Buffer currently, since nothing feels “fixed” and ever changing these last few months.
I do get the sense that this is somewhat... See more
I do get the sense that this is somewhat... See more
How We're Working Without Managers at Buffer
Startup Systems and On building of All Trades
The build is taxing. Empathy with yourself and others who are building alongside you is crucial.
I was just there at The Firm as a stopover, to get the skills, I would have said at the time; this was not really me, I would have said, but it was a thin defense. How quickly I was becoming an icky person in these small, important moments. This is to say nothing of the actual impact of the work I was doing, which, I believe, was marginally useful... See more
I Felt Important
The perils on working for the wrong reasons
The second model is based on what Nelson Repenning termed a capability trap , which describes how organizations fail to implement capabilities that have proved to create a positive effect.2 One of the main reasons behind this failure is a delay in the feedback loop between investing in a capability (such as perspective taking) and recognizing the... See more
Per Hugander • Take a Skills-Based Approach to Culture Change
9 Life Lessons by Tim Minchin
You don’t have to have a dream. Be micro-ambitious, work with pride on whatever is in front of you. Be careful on long term dreams, if you focus too far in front of you, you won’t see the shiny thing out the corner of your eye.
Don’t seek happiness. Keep busy and aim to make someone else happy and you might find you get
Emotion = sensation + context
Jonny Miller • The Best Decision- Making Is Emotional
But maybe this makes it easier—knowing that you will be nauseated and lost when you try to do anything in life other than stay on an understandable, legible, unobjectionable trajectory. Sometimes this is called safety. But it’s really not safe. It’s just steady-state. People with safe jobs get cancer and get fired all the time. Often, taking the... See more