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Being brilliant won’t save you if no one can count on you.

It can be hard to appreciate just how much reliability impacts opportunity. It’s fun to outperform people who are way smarter than you by being more reliable than they are.

Reliability isn’t just a virtue – it’s a competitive advantage that compounds over time.

“If we had to please investors, we’d have stringent financial controls, we’d have to explain and justify every decision. That would be bad business for people who rely on strong feelings about what’s right rather than on black and white “facts,” which often turn out to be false. If you’re your own boss, you can move fast. When ideas have to be impl... See more

Inversion forces us to consider the opposite side of the equation. Instead of asking, “How do I solve this problem?” inversion asks, “What would guarantee failure?”

The successful learn vicariously; the foolish insist on firsthand pain.

Bureaucracies make everyone feel productive while doing very little useful work.