Business Advice
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.
Jerry Seinfeld's Speech At Duke's 2024 Commencement (Transcript)
“The most difficult part of positioning is selecting that one specific concept to hang your hat on. Yet you must, if you want to cut through the prospect's wall of indifference.”
-Al Ries
Most times, the best way to create value is to double down on the domain-specific insights you’ve collected over your entire career.
—Nikita Bier
"You are paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of the problems you solve."
~ Elon Musk
My remix: “The amount of money you make is in direct proportion to the size of the problem you solve.”
File this under “people I don’t like but who have said things that feel useful.”
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.
You don’t want to be in the selling business. You want to be in the reorder business
- John Paul DeJoria
Build the thing you wish existed.
—Source unknown