Focus
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Focus
Ben Franklin's daily schedule is proof that most people attribute to genius what is just long periods of focused time
Focus, as Steve Jobs said, is about saying no.
The only dangerous competitors are focused ones.
Ergo there are things that even the most dangerous competitors say no to, and it would be worth thinking explicitly about what those are.
Paul Grahamx.comThat, as a startup, you should only do half of what you want to do (only half the options, half the tabs, half the offerings, and half the target audience) to compound your chances of true PMF.
Scott Belsky • What Is “Seeing the Matrix” for a Product Leader?
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Edwin Land, the scientist and inventor best known for co-founding the Polaroid Corporation and inventing instant photography, said, “My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn’t know they had.”
One thing I do look back on fondly was how incredibly focused we were. Resources and time were so tight that you could feel the weight of all the things you weren’t working on. You had real conviction that the thing you were doing was the most important thing.
To pick a somewhat trivial example, at fireside chats with Mark (the predecessor to the... See more
To pick a somewhat trivial example, at fireside chats with Mark (the predecessor to the... See more
Andrew Bosworth • Focus
Mastery is not a function of genius or talent; it is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.
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