Commitment

sometimes people ask something like “do you think this could work?” and I sorta waffle around on it but I realize my truer answer is something like: it’ll probably work IF *you* believe it will work and *you* commit to making it work for 7+ years

Concentrate your resources on a small number of high-conviction bets

Woody Allen said “80% of success is showing up.” To which @howes28 added, “and the other 20% is refusing to leave.” I think about that a lot when companies run into tough times. So much of long term company success is built on the team simply persisting.

The older I grow, the more convinced I become that commitment generates a kind of experiential wealth that can't be brute-forced into existence. There's this fascinating fractal effect that occurs, where constraint transmutes into focus, revealing layers of complexity a dabbler would miss entirely. It's not a limitation, because even that word feel... See more

You don't need a new idea You need the time and resources to stick with the last new idea long enough for it to see some results https://t.co/v7cpg7XcDL