Business Advice
Solve a problem you have yourself, then sell the solution.
~Dan Koe
Source: https://youtu.be/GmHQGVD7KRQ?si=S27LWzhIApJ8iEzW
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 don’t want to be in the selling business. You want to be in the reorder business
- John Paul DeJoria
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.
And as more people adopt them, the more mediocre they become.
The best is usually what most people aren't willing to do.
Jason Fried • Tweet
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.
Things I'm thinking about
Antonio Garcia Martinez on startups: “If your idea is any good, it won’t get stolen, you’ll have to jam it down people’s throats instead.”
Do We Still Need Journals?
“Fall in love with problems rather than solutions.”
-from ‘Non-Obvious Thinking’ by Rohit Barghava and Ben DuPont
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)
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
-Antoine de Saint-Expuéry