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Any damn fool can make it complex. It takes a genius to make it simple
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
Simplify, simplify, simplify!
Identify common frustration
Rethink current assumptions
Engineer better solution
Adapted from Shane Parrish podcast episode on James Dyson
Any hope for a better future comes from willing that future into being ... and all that is good inside us is measured by the good we do for others.
-Luther
from Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
-Steve Jobs
Leadership, I’m learning, is far less about having answers and far more about creating the conditions for good questions, trust, and shared ownership to emerge.
Paul Venuto • feed updates
It doesn’t matter what position you find yourself in right now. What matters is whether you improve your position today. Every ordinary moment is an opportunity to make the future easier or harder.
-Shane Parrish
my bold; from Brain Food #639
Messaging—processes, crowd control signage, branding, verbal announcements—must be concise (to the point), clear (transparent, able to be understood), and consistent (from one time to another to another to …)
How do we manage civilization’s continuity?
adapted from Stuart Brand’s “Founder’s Note” in Pace Layers issue 1