both are true
Two conflicting perspectives I’m trying to reconcile:
Having a “north star” mission is critical.
Difference between success and failure on everything I've worked on has always been in persisting and getting unsexy details right.
On the one hand, humanity’s creative confidence for humanity has gone up as people of all ages are able to prompt whatever is in their mind’s eye and express themselves visually.... See more
Scott Belsky • The Era of Abstraction & New Creative Tensions
on the shift from being skills-constrained to being imagination-constrained
Opinion | Our Lives Are an Endless Series of ‘And’
nytimes.com“Life is not like formula fiction. The villain has a heart, and the hero has great flaws.”
— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Reconciling Opposites Jul 02
a beautiful doc with compilations from Lorenzo Servitije, the founder of Grupo Bimbo (and one of the richest men in Mexico) shared by a newsletter reader in response to the “both are true” issue.
Another prominent billionaire gave a graduation speech a year later. The key message? Working hard is bad advice. Do what feels fun for you to be successful.
Julie Zhuo • The Looking Glass: Our Souls Need Proof of Work
post-truth world

he does good things and bad things
The worst kind of company is usually not the one where there's too much real work to do, but the kind where there's not enough. It's in this realm the real monsters appear. Without enough real problems to go around, humans are prone to invent fictitious and dreadful ones.
This is the root of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs analysis. That a shocking
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