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
Anytime you’re telling someone what to do you’re not actually solving the bug. You’re doing a really bad patch.
The 100 Best Bits of Advice From 10 Years of First Round Review
Certainty - Making your customers feel secure about the quality and longevity of your product reduces the fear of disappointment or the need to frequently replace the item.
Variety - Owning items that introduce a sense of novelty to a person's life satisfies their need for variety and can make them feel more excited.
Significance - Owning something... See more
Variety - Owning items that introduce a sense of novelty to a person's life satisfies their need for variety and can make them feel more excited.
Significance - Owning something... See more
Superhuman
On purchasing higher end products
From James Clear's 3-2-1: Why small things matter, reframing failure, and how to cherish life
"Life rewards action, not intelligence.
Many brilliant people talk themselves out of getting started, and being smart doesn't help very much without the courage to act.
You can't win if you're not in the game."
Know what you want to stand out for, how you’re different, what you can do that no one else can that can’t be captured by an algorithm or simple market signals, at least not yet.
There’s a market for almost everything.
The most valuable things will always be the ones that are hardest to price.
There’s a market for almost everything.
The most valuable things will always be the ones that are hardest to price.
Superhuman
From James Clear, Fwd: 3-2-1: Making your habits fun, how to host a good party, and tips for prioritizing
"10 years or 1 hour. Those are the two time frames worth prioritizing.
10 years is shorthand for thinking longer-term than nearly everyone else and doing things that are really ambitious or meaningful. Most of the deeply meaningful things in life
... See moreWhen 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
Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast is discontinuous, slow is continuous. Fast and small instructs slow and big by accrued innovation and by occasional revolution. Slow and big controls small and fast by constraint and constancy. Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power.
Packy McCormick • Pace Yourself
We are living through the emergence of a new business category which I believe will become an important part of our digital lives: community-curated knowledge networks
(a thread on why) https://t.co/ZNg3FHiGUD
Steve Jobs explains the importance of both thinking and doing:
“The doers are the major thinkers. The people who really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker-doer in one person.”