Cultivate what Adam terms a “challenge network,” a cohort of people you can rely on to give you unvarnished feedback
If you want to reach your full potential, you’ll need to have your logic torn apart to discover holes, allowing you to improve your reasoning, so you make better decisions
When you’re focused on something few others are thinking about, you find yourself constantly making the case to yourself and others that your vision is worth pursuing and worthy of other people’s attention. This ongoing need to justify your work creates a significant emotional overhead.
A lot of companies don’t make it because in the process of trying to get many things right, they don’t get anything right.
Why are they in such a hurry?
A great company is a privilege, and it’s a privilege best earned through a singular product, not a collection of products. Entrepreneurs and creatives think about batches of products —creating an... See more