Earning Secrets
Earning Secrets as one of the fundamental skills of “discovering” a startup.
Earning Secrets
The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
But I like this model of bootstrapping entrepreneurs as foragers: living off the land as hunter-gatherers until they can find a market to homestead. Bootstrappers have to start from where they are and search for opportunities. Pasteur advised that “Chance only favors the prepared mind” so you have to open yourself up to possibilities and be... See more
The Technium: 1,000 True Fans
These are deeply human capacities—what the WEF report calls “ human-centric skills. ” They can’t be memorised. They can’t be taught through worksheets. But they can be cultivated through experiences that are real, relational, challenging, and meaningful.
Tom Brown • The Future Belongs to the Curious
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
Live in the future, then build what's missing.If you look at the way successful founders have had their ideas, it's generally the result of some external stimulus hitting a prepared mind.
paulgraham.com • How to Get Startup Ideas
Taste is easily defined as the ability to discriminate between the valuable and the expandable. It’s another word for Good Judgment. When you decide whether to eat sushi or calamari for dinner, you're in fact erecting a hierarchy of value, and passing judgment according to said hierarchy. If you choose sushi, that is because you've deemed it best... See more
Alpha • On Founder Taste
