Attuned Entrepreneurship
The secret to selling out is making your release for the ones who will REALLY care about and treasure it. The other secret is that, done responsibly, it’s a way to reward ourselves too.
Yancey Strickler • Selling out without selling out
“We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies”.
-Walt Disney
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — even in that we skip forward — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of... See more
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
Your psyche demands novelty for progress, but most people get theirs from the endless sources of instant cheap pleasures. Exploring the unknown is how you live in accordance with nature.
Dan Koe • The Art of Focus: Find Meaning, Reinvent Yourself and Create Your Ideal Future
We fail to maximise our impact when we focus on only one or two elements of our story. We achieve maximum impact only when all five elements of our story—backstory, values, purpose, vision, and strategy—are prioritised over time.
Bernadette Jiwa • Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are
Like an insatiable investor, dopamine constantly screams for Bigger! Better! More!
Satisfying dopamine’s demands is a losing game
Satisfying dopamine’s demands is a losing game
Julie Zhuo • The Looking Glass: Our Souls Need Proof of Work
Marketing should magnify the truth, not manipulate a message. Our job isn’t to get everyone to believe us. It’s to give the right people something to believe in.
Bernadette Jiwa • Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are
You might think, “oh, what a luxury. This sounds like something rich people do.”
To me it’s the opposite.
It’s way more expensive to keep doing shit you hate and staying in a loop of overthinking and confusion, indefinitely - than to take some time away and really check in.
Way, way more expensive.
To me it’s the opposite.
It’s way more expensive to keep doing shit you hate and staying in a loop of overthinking and confusion, indefinitely - than to take some time away and really check in.
Way, way more expensive.
Noah Cebuliak • The Holy Grail of Self-Trust — Roadopener
