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
The arrogance of improvement
Who are you to make things better?
How dare you raise your hand to help, offer an idea, take responsibility...
Perhaps it might be helpful to reframe that feeling as the generosity of improvement instead.
If not you, who? If not now, when?
Who are you to make things better?
How dare you raise your hand to help, offer an idea, take responsibility...
Perhaps it might be helpful to reframe that feeling as the generosity of improvement instead.
If not you, who? If not now, when?
The arrogance of improvement
A century-long vision allows you to build something that mostly ignores short-lived fluctuations in public perception or personal feelings. With a vision of that duration, you can think outside of yourself. If you couple that with a hum-drum process of Google Sheets and brain-trust meetings, you can build something meaningful.
There is something bea... See more
There is something bea... See more
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
The archives of human cleverness are filled with blunders. When read in a good mood, history is a blooper reel. But it should not be lost on us that history never repeats, and modern technology enables ever more leverage. The more technology you can harness to commit an idea, and the faster your idea can spread, the greater the magnitude of somethi... See more
Simon Sarris • Long Distance Thinking
“A tiny acorn grows into a magnificent oak tree, and it never goes: ‘I have to improve myself.’”
Discover, not improve
Start With First Principles
First-principles thinking is one of the best ways to understand complicated problems. Understand the root cause of why something works (or doesn't), so you can adapt it to your problem and build great experiences.
1FS Blog, First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge (2016)
https://growth.design/case-studies/p
... See moreNo more building. Just talk to customers. “We decided we weren’t allowed to build anything at all. We had to just talk to people—and talk to them until we had a lot of confidence and a mental model of customers, their jobs, the problems they might have and how we might solve them.” (For more here, check out Cacioppo’s write-up on some of her essent... See more
Vanta's Path to Product-Market Fit — Solve the Customer’s Problem, Then Write Code
“You may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: How to solve hard problems, the power of reflection, and the miracles of daily life
On becoming and Internal Product Management
Philosopher and author Arthur Schopenhauer on the importance of reflection and contemplation rather than mere reading and research
Uncovering Pain and Negative Consequences of the Status Quo