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Breaking: Elon Musk is Not Stupid
The more stories I hear about how companies succeed or stagnate, the more I realize that it’s extremely common for creative founders (also known as “idea people”) to have a persistent bias towards seeing everything as a strategy problem, even when it’s really an execution problem.
Every • Execution Is Exponential
All four primary sources of wealth creation represented in the Forbes 400 involve “idiosyncratic risk”—the kind of risk that, according to the tenets of modern portfolio theory, “rational” investors can and should eliminate by diversification. Yet most of the people on the list believed, and still believe, that focusing on what they know best is th
... See moreAshvin B. Chhabra • The Aspirational Investor
I knew we had been making decisions in a vacuum, I knew a lot was gut feel, I knew we had communication issues and finally I knew our learning was haphazard at best. But did situational awareness really matter in business? We were doing well, and maybe just copying lessons from those greats would suffice? I’d also heard others talk about how execut... See more
Simon Wardley • Highlights From medium.com
« Most geniuses—especially those who lead others—prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognized simplicities. » Andy Benoit6
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
Peter Thiel: Extreme focus is a superpower “Don’t divide your attention. Focusing on one thing yields increasing returns for each unit of effort.At a micro level, an extra hour of focus on the current project has a much higher return than an hour on something new, or worse, 5 minutes each on 12 new things. Before you ever do something new, you shou... See more