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
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
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”
To be lost is to be human
Feeling lost is a fundamental part of the human experience, a feeling that traces back to the dawn of history.
Feeling lost is a fundamental part of the human experience, a feeling that traces back to the dawn of history.
Steven Schlafman • The Journey Through Lostness: From Disorientation to Discovery
I aspire to live consciously, to follow my own inherent energy, to help other human beings, and to immerse myself fully in the present moment.
Superhuman
If you see a set of rules that don’t make sense, that are overly stern, that seemed designed to be offputting instead of helpful, it’s possible that the poster is leaving part of the memo unsaid:
THIS IS MUCH HARDER THAN WE THOUGHT, AND WELL, MAYBE IF WE MAKE A LOT OF RULES, PEOPLE WILL LEAVE US ALONE.
They looked for first principles thinkers, so not necessarily your experience, but how do you approach problems, how do you know the right questions to ask? And then create your own framework around that.
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Dropbox also hired for people that were just really humble, collaborative and team oriented. And the combination of those two things,... See more
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Dropbox also hired for people that were just really humble, collaborative and team oriented. And the combination of those two things,... See more
Building high-performing teams | Melissa Tan (Webflow, Dropbox, Canva)
Generalists have the advantage of interdisciplinary knowledge, which fosters creativity and a firmer understanding of how the world works. They have a better overall perspective and can generally perform second-order thinking in a wider range of situations than the specialist can.
Shane • The Generalized Specialist: How Shakespeare, Da Vinci, and Kepler Excelled
Think about distribution from day one
If you’re going to build a product, you want people to use it. But far too often, founders get drawn to the building and tinkering side of the business, forgoing the go-to-market piece until they’re actually ready to get out and sell.
That’s a mistake, says Foster. “I think one of the biggest things that... See more
If you’re going to build a product, you want people to use it. But far too often, founders get drawn to the building and tinkering side of the business, forgoing the go-to-market piece until they’re actually ready to get out and sell.
That’s a mistake, says Foster. “I think one of the biggest things that... See more
The Not So Cookie-Cutter Approach to Company Building — 8 Lessons from Zapier
The hardest transition as a founder is going from working directly on the product to not. There’s this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it’s done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.