Embrace naivety / Talk at CSM split this up

There is nothing more interesting or exciting than exciting curious naive and genuinely motivated people. Use that lack of information that lack of experiences to power forward and do things. People will look at you favourably.

Jonathan Quaade

I dropped out of tennis lessons and chickened out of kayaking not because the story was true, but because I was looking for proof of the story I believed.

Then I had my DNA sequenced at the age of 36 and it turns out I have the ACTN3 gene, which is in fact associated with athletic performance in elite power athletes.

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Jasmine Bina on strategy

Questions are places in your mind where answers fit . If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question — you have to want to know — in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.1

Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers

Like, this is more about open referencing, and actually, like, um, we call it kind of a layered approach.

Which is that everything you make should point in the direction of the reference or something else that’s going to take you deeper. So that at least, if you don’t have the time, you can stop there. But if you are curious, you can go deeper; you

Baukunst • This Could Still Be a Movement: Why Mars Needs a Creative Director

“Like the founders themselves, I had no former footwear experience.”

– Thilo Alex Brunner, chief design officer at On

Behind the scenes at On, a brand driven by design, innovation and experimentation

The trick is to treat knowledge as a tool we can pick up and put down. Or, even better, use it as instinct and intuition rather than explicitly applied. Sometimes, the most expert thing we can do is pretend we're not an expert at all

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The questions we ask reshape our reality.

Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers

Real feedback for creative industry job applications | SuperHi.cv

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“A heck of a lot of people will think it won’t work. But if you can picture yourself walking through each step, there’s a good chance you know what you’re doing. Just because something’s never been done before doesn’t mean it can’t be done.”

Sequoia Capital • 60 Company Builders Share Their Advice for Startup Founders

Return to first principles and act quickly on your new conclusions.

It’s very easy to take the world as it is, as opposed to envisioning it as you want it to be. For example, when re-designing a feature, one approach is to take what you have, and imagine small changes that will solve the problems with the feature. Instead, it’s often instructive t

Joe Lonsdale • Lessons from Peter Thiel

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