Earning Secrets
Earning Secrets as one of the fundamental skills of “discovering” a startup.
Earning Secrets
Sublime is an ethos-driven company.
Here is what we believe:
Intention > Attention
The destruction of our attention compromises our ability to make sustained progress on anything worthwhile.
You don’t need to go live in a cabin or swear off Netflix. You just have to live more deliberately.
We are entering the post-information age. The barrier is no
But my core work — the stuff that gets me up early in the mornings and keeps me up late at night — happens much before those products are publicly released. It’s in the research: the process of finding interesting questions that seem to go ignored, getting to the root of the topic, exploring many possible answers, building up the most promising... See more
alexanderobenauer.com • How I approach my core work
Imagine not being confused, having complete clarity. How boring would that be? What would you do with yourself?
Paul Sturrocksubstack.comThe idea is that reasoning from first principles is reasoning like a scientist. You take core facts and observations and use them to puzzle together a conclusion, kind of like a chef playing around with raw ingredients to try to make them into something good. By doing this puzzling, a chef eventually writes a new recipe. The other kind of... See more
Tim Urban • How to Pick a Career
Contrast this with Henrik Karlsson on the importance of “context”. Somewhere in the spectrum? Or a different axis from creating vs. copying altogether?
For wayfinding, you need a compass and you need a direction. Not a map—a direction.
Dave Evans • Designing Your Life: For Fans of Atomic Habits
It was in Notes in 1964 that Alexander introduced his now-famous idea of form-context-fit. These days, I mostly see it referenced in the phrase product-market-fit —meaning you’ve found a product that consumers are hungry to pay for—but it was originally a broader, deeper, and more interesting idea. Alexander proposed form-context-fit as a way to... See more
Johanna Karlsson • How to solve a problem
When faced with a difficult problem, don’t try to solve it. Instead, make sure you understand it. If you understand it properly, the solution will be obvious.
This idea has been expressed by many people (the mathematician Alexander Grothendieck comes to mind, as does Einstein), but to me the clearest and most useful articulation of the underlying... See more
This idea has been expressed by many people (the mathematician Alexander Grothendieck comes to mind, as does Einstein), but to me the clearest and most useful articulation of the underlying... See more