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
In this world, there is an abundance of products, and every industry becomes far more competitive.
How can a startup survive in this environment? The answer is deceptively simple: Have good taste.
How can a startup survive in this environment? The answer is deceptively simple: Have good taste.
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
When I’m clearing my inbox, responding to comments in a doc, cooking lunch–these are chores.
Chores are the backbone of industrial productivity. We can check them off, measure them and see them stacked up.
Most of the time, most of us do chores. Finding a way to do your chores more productively is quite leveraged, and you can put it to use right... See more
Chores are the backbone of industrial productivity. We can check them off, measure them and see them stacked up.
Most of the time, most of us do chores. Finding a way to do your chores more productively is quite leveraged, and you can put it to use right... See more
PW1: Two hats for productivity
The freedom loop
seths.blog
as humans, we tend to do whatever it takes and to use any justification to keep busy, even if the task is meaningless. In the words of the scientists behind the study: “Our research suggests that many purported goals that people pursue may be merely justifications to keep themselves busy.”
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • The Illusion of Productivity: Why We Are Addicted to Busyness
Shifts in values and beliefs slowly change the topography of our cultural landscape, but in some places we experience landslides that happen so quickly, we can lose our bearings. Cultural borders that we thought fell in one place now, strangely, fall in another, and the way we measure the distance between our values requires an update.
The spaces in... See more
The spaces in... See more
Creating New Units of Culture
How To Enjoy The Process and Getting more out of doing less
The Busyness Matrix by Ness Labs — “meaningfulness is based on how alive these tasks make you feel”
Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest...The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity - it is very much like compound interest.
Sari Azout • things worth sharing this week
Reasoning by analogy, or copying what others are doing, is sort of like being a cover band where you’re playing somebody else’s music. Whereas with first-principles thinking, you go back to the fundamental raw materials of music, which are the notes, and then you build an original song from scratch. That is first-principles thinking.