general advice is a myth
Having a certain degree of indifference about your idea, your work and its potential outcome will serve you better than giving every ounce of yourself to it and assigning it all your hopes and dreams. Find a way to care a little bit less. This is the opposite of what we’re told, but humans are exceptional self-saboteurs when we want something too
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Ian Wharton
This is literally the opposite of what Nick Sleep and all the others says about single best idea focus on it completely etc
Advice is hard to general applicable. Ask for frameworks patterns how others solved decision and apply them to their situation
Being frustrated with the thing you’re making is a feature not a bug. So look for people who are highly critical of their own work
Joshua Schatner said he looks for engineers who are frustrated by their product
Show me your last big win, and I’ll tell you about your next 5 failures.
The point of this is short. The new thing has to look like the new thing, which makes it hard to pattern match to the previous new thing. But pattern matching is at the heart of derisking. This creates a weird loop of advice.
The point of this is short. The new thing has to look like the new thing, which makes it hard to pattern match to the previous new thing. But pattern matching is at the heart of derisking. This creates a weird loop of advice.
‘They know they should do one thing but they feel they should do something else. And they can’t reconcile the two things. Generally you should go with what you feel that you should do. Because your emotional system is a great deal smarter than you give it credit for. You have to figure out how to make your emotional system make decision so you can
... See moreSimilar to the brain and mind idea that Isabel talks about in her article .
our quantitative
understanding of elasticity is shortterm we can estimate what a price reduction will do this week in this quarter but we cannot estimate the effect that consistently lowering prices
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
Jeff Bezos on lowering prices this week or this quarter.
Pricing is psychology like all the pricing videos I watched and you can't say raising or lowering prices would be better.
Graham Duncan felt that when he starting advising and changed 400 a week and raised it to 22000 a week and got way more business.
It’s not that we’ve all got schizophrenia — of course we haven’t — but what I think is that we’re all neglecting the right hemisphere. Schizophrenia is a case in which the left hemisphere has gone into overdrive, and the right hemisphere has been wound down or is not really being listened to, and this leads to delusions and hallucinations. I think... See more
It’s all about nuance Johan conversation about personality being prescribed from birth
‘Founders tend to over integrate all the advice. They know they should do something but they feel like they should do something to else. In general you should go with what you feel that you should do. Because your emotional system is a great deal smarter than you give it credit for.’ - Joshua Schater