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Business Building
Fight bullshit and bureaucracy every time you see it and get other people to fight it too. Do not let the org chart get in the way of people working productively together.
-Sam Altman
Email from Steve Jobs to Apple employees on the day it surpassed Microsoft to become largest tech firm
a fascinating example of humility and leadership
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Companies That Have Successfully Implemented Out-of-the-Box Thinking, via Rory Sutherland:
Octopus Energy
They have a software division called Kraken
They manage utilities in a much more sophisticated pricing environment, like cheaper rates for charging cars after midnight
“It’s very much about marrying supply and demand.” – Rory Sutherland
They have a
48 smart things Sam Walton wrote in his autobiography:
1. It never occurred to me that I might lose. It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
2. We just got after it and *stayed* after... See more
One of the biggest reasons it gets harder to do new things as you get older is that new things are generally undignified at first (indeed, this is an excellent heuristic for discovering them) and the older you get, the more dignified you're expected to be.
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