Business Advice
by Forest Linden · updated 11d ago
Business Advice
- Best practices are rarely the best — they're mostly just cargo cult common practices.
And as more people adopt them, the more mediocre they become.
The best is usually what most people aren't willing to do.from Tweet by Jason Fried
Forest Linden added 11d ago
“‘Not your best ever’
In order to have a best ever, hearing this is part of the deal.
Each thing is not going to top everything that came before it. Progress is rarely smooth.”
-Seth Godin
Forest Linden added 1mo ago
“Fall in love with problems rather than solutions.”
-from ‘Non-Obvious Thinking’ by Rohit Barghava and Ben DuPont
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- I believe “what effect do you want to have on people” is one of the most important questions we should ask when we are making something. Life isn't just a series of problems to be solved but experiences to be had.
from Things I'm thinking about
Forest Linden added 2mo ago
- Making work easier. This is the problem. So obsessed with getting to the answer, completing the project, producing a result which are all valid things, but not where the richness of the human experience lies.
from Jerry Seinfeld's Speech At Duke's 2024 Commencement (Transcript)
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- The hard part about figuring out what customers want is figuring out that you need to figure it out
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- Nobody can read your mind. Share your ideas. Tell people what you’re working on. Communicate your vision, even if it’s only half baked. Stir the pot.
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"The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you're passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated." https://t.co/KfFpouh7DmForest Linden added 2mo ago
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