Building a Business

Inspiration and advice for building and scaling a business

“The most important thing is to stay focused on what matters. Most little things ultimately have no effect on an enterprise. It's the big deals - and the big decisions that do. Don't spend too much time on little things. The important choices and opportunities are the ones that move the dial.”

Lighthouse Skills:

· Sales: Sales is the most useful meta-skill for life. No matter what path you choose to go down, you need to learn to sell: Sell yourself, sell your story, sell your product, sell your vision, sell your ideas. My richest friends aren't the ones with the highest IQs. They just know how to

"Things that aren't doing the thing:

· Preparing to do the thing isn't doing the thing.

· Scheduling time to do the thing isn't doing the thing.

· Making a to-do list for the thing isn't doing the thing.

As people contort themselves to please the algorithm for short-term payouts, there’s even more of the less legible, less liquid, but ultimately more important long-term value up for grabs for you if you continue to just be yourself and talk about whatever lights your fire, algorithm be damned.

Packy McCormick • A Market For (Almost) Everything

“Conversation enriches the understanding but solitude is the school of genius.”

Jeff Bezos' quote:

"We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details. We are long-term optimists and short-term realists."