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
Everyone wants to learn the latest behavioral economics trick, psychological insight, or lesson from science or philosophy that can help them make decisions.
The problem is: we can’t remember to apply them. We make lists in Notion of our principles and use Anki to note down mental models. But they end up being mostly abandoned.
ChatGPT changes this.... See more
The problem is: we can’t remember to apply them. We make lists in Notion of our principles and use Anki to note down mental models. But they end up being mostly abandoned.
ChatGPT changes this.... See more
Dan Shipper • AI-assisted Decision-Making
The lens or the problem?
The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralise the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be
... See moreGreg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Momentum is Everything
Most founders implicitly realize that in order to get a startup off the ground you need to will it into existence and keep momentum high.
This is good for the startup but it’s also essential for the founder — when momentum is high most founders feel more optimistic about what they’re building, which is obvious to anyone they’re... See more
Most founders implicitly realize that in order to get a startup off the ground you need to will it into existence and keep momentum high.
This is good for the startup but it’s also essential for the founder — when momentum is high most founders feel more optimistic about what they’re building, which is obvious to anyone they’re... See more
Superhuman
When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at four a.m. and work for five to six hours. In the afternoon, I run for ten kilometers or swim for fifteen hundred meters (or do both), then I read a bit and listen to some music. I go to bed at nine p.m. I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important... See more
David Epstein • "Discipline Is Destiny"
You’ll delay their impact by a week, a month, or maybe even a quarter, but because you've invested in their onboarding, their impact will be much more durable for a longer period of time .”
Build Your Culture Like a Product — Lessons from Asana’s Head of People
I tell founders to think about the problem they’re solving, specifically my LUV framework:... See more
- Large: Is the problem you’re aiming to solve large enough—customers, users, spend, etc.?
- Urgent: Is the problem urgent to your users/customers—will they be interested in a new offering, change their way of solving this problem today?
- Valuable: Are people
Lenny Rachitsky • Your startup idea probably isn’t venture-scale
Some problems are like muddy puddles. The way to clear a muddy puddle is to leave it alone. The more you mess with it, the muddier it becomes. Many of the problems I dream up when I'm overthinking or worrying or ruminating fall into this category. Is life really falling apart or am I just in a sour mood? Is this as hard as I'm making it or do I... See more