what is value creation?
“If something looks irrational – and has been so for a long time – odds are you have a wrong definition of rationality.” – Taleb
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
One of the biggest mistakes we make in Silicon Valley is generalizing reasons why startups fail. Google was the 24th search engine. Facebook was the at least the dozenth social network.
Sari Azout • Check your Pulse #48
there is no other competition but yourself.
Figma’s founding vision = to “eliminate the gap between imagination and reality.”
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” ~ Zig Ziglar.
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.
Take the work seriously, but not yourself.
Sari Azout • A Moodboard for People Who Hate Self-Promotion
don’t care to be liked. care about the quality of the work and what it takes to get to that standard.
Taste is the bone-deep feeling that you’ve made something good. It is a sense, inexplicable and ephemeral.
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
good taste hates a award-ceremony. the creator already knows it’s good.
Repetition doesn't spoil the prayer.