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How do you get from starting small to doing something great? By making successive versions. Great things are almost always made in successive versions. You start with something small and evolve it, and the final version is both cleverer and more ambitious than anything you could have planned.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
There are no parties for the middle.
The balloons and champagne are reserved for beginnings and endings.
We celebrate the leap of faith because it’s full of potential.We celebrate the end because it’s the payoff for your grit.
But the journey in between gets no fan mail.
Yet, it’s the meandering middle where we spend most days.
In the middle lies the
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Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect
- Will Guidara, unreasonable hospitality
“… we make an extremely rigid division between work and play. You’re supposed to work in order to earn enough money, to give you sufficient leisure time for something entirely different called “having fun,” or “play.” And this is the most ridiculous division of things, because everything that we do – however tough it is, however strenuous – can be
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PEOPLE IN SYSTEMS DO NOT DO WHAT THE SYSTEM SAYS THEY ARE DOING.
University professors chase grants, not student enlightenment. VCs nurture personal brands alongside deals. Startup founders optimize funding metrics over customer needs.
THE SYSTEM ITSELF DOES NOT DO WHAT IT SAYS IT IS DOING.
The restaurant business is actually the alcohol business.... See more
University professors chase grants, not student enlightenment. VCs nurture personal brands alongside deals. Startup founders optimize funding metrics over customer needs.
THE SYSTEM ITSELF DOES NOT DO WHAT IT SAYS IT IS DOING.
The restaurant business is actually the alcohol business.... See more