Christian Baaki
@christianbaaki
Christian Baaki
It is the ability to fabricate hardware, using the technologies of the materials and chemical sciences, that allows the creation of all society’s magical and mundane services, from e-commerce, video conferencing, and clean water, to pharmaceuticals, electric power, ride-sharing, and vacations. There are no services without manufactured products.
What I’ve experienced in all these different contexts is that people are generally quite poor at explaining how one might go about making a high-quality decision. This difficulty isn’t just confined to novice poker players or college students or entry-level employees. Even when I ask C-level executives—who are literally full-time decision-makers—wh... See more
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Annie Duke, How to Decide
“You will not learn anything of lasting importance from TV, movies, podcasts…they’re junk food. Successful people converge on 3 ways to learn: lots of reading time, some exercises and projects, and conversations with people who are slightly ahead of them.”
Learning and
Read. and How I Read
The pianist whose fingers seem supernaturally nimble, the presenter whose message seems viscerally compelling, and the artist whose paintings seem impossibly realistic all wield the same magic: they’ve invested more time than you’d expect.
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship.
Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Here are 7 steps I would follow if I were starting my business from scratch tomorrow:
Understand one problem that one specific group of people have
Create a clear and concise roadmap to solving that problem
Figure out your product format
Decide on where to host it
Find some customers
Turn customers into testimonials
Create a system for repeatable selling
That’s the promise: you will live more curiously if you write. You will become a scientist, if not of the natural world than of whatever world you care about. More of that world will pop alive. You will see more when you look at it.
James Somers • More People Should Write
Treat cognitive context shifts as “productivity poison.” The more you switch your attention from one target (say, a report you’re writing) to another (say, an inbox check), the more exhausted and dumber you become.