slow and steady wins the race!!
how to keep going at it
slow and steady wins the race!!
Staying small doesn’t have to be a stepping-stone to something else, or the result of a business failure — rather, it can be an end goal or a smart long-term strategy. The point of being a company of one is to become better in ways that don’t incur the typical setbacks of growth.
Paul Jarvis • Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business
It’s simple. Stay on the bus. Stay on the f*cking bus.Why, because if you do, in time you will begin to see a difference.
Arno Rafael Minkkinen • Arno Rafael Minkkinen: 'Stay on the bus. Stay on the f*cking bus', Finding Your Own Vision, New England School of Photography - 2004 — Speakola
On starting over, pivoting, learning how to be comfortable with risk and widening our window of tolerance
In short, once you accept the hard truth that building a career and earning money is not the everlasting source of happiness and meaning you believed it would be, you can start to look outside the box you built for yourself.
What is meaningful work?
Adding one extra feature nearly cost us our startup.
Monday morning, anxiety twisted in my chest as I deleted half of our codebase.
Our product was buried under features, each an attempt to stave off failure, yet leaving us on the brink of collapse. The team lingered, eyes glued to my screen.
“It’s too cluttered,” I finally said, swallowing my fear.
My
... See moreOne of the surprising and counter-cultural truths about modern-day marketing, which I suspect drives many efficiency-minded people practically insane, is that physical direct mail continues to work really, really well.It makes no sense purely from an efficiency standpoint because it's a very expensive way of reaching a single person. But from an... See more
Rory Sutherland • Rory Sutherland on LinkedIn: #advertising #creativity #behaviouralccience | 348 comments
Totally explain why I’ve always felt a sense of curiosity and excitement towards marketing material I got mailed to me over the last 10 years
Wish I wrote this