don’t be discouraged
weathering the ups and downs of creative projects, life, relationships. one brick at a time.
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don’t be discouraged
On this day in 1964: Jack Ma born
*taught himself English at age 12
*rejected from 30 jobs including KFC
*made $15/month teaching English
*rejected by Harvard 10 times
*first 2 business ventures failed
*started Alibaba with $60,000 from 18 friends
*net worth: $41.4 billion
The thing that no one ever tells you about your calling is that it’s boring. Oh, everything is interesting if you’re interested… shut up. Yes, it will be exhilarating and fun and fluid and and natural and meaningful. It will also be tedious. It will hurt. You will encounter obstacle after obstacle until you feel like you’re in a video game with alg... See more
“when you avoid difficulty, you avoid your own gifts” via Ava, bookbear express
from a founder:
“Momentum is a powerful thing
I genuinely think going from $10k to $200k MRR was way easier than going from 0 to $10K
Simply because back then we had slow progress and zero momentum”
Fun graphic on $META from the Rowan Street annual letter (a hedge fund that printed a 102.6% net return in 2023): Shows how non-linear the path to good returns can be and how conviction pays off. https://t.co/jWQGVSc7LS... See more
In 1817, the poet John Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization. “At once it struck me,” Keats wrote, “what quality went to form a Man of Achievement … Negative Capability.” Keats explains that “Negative Capability” is “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching ... See more
The ultimate competitive advantage is actually giving a shit about the problem you're working on. When Airbnb had just a few dozen employees, Rocket Internet raised $90 million and hired hundreds of people to clone and crush them.
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millions of dollars of funding can't compete with a company having a soul
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