How to succeed in Business

emulate the sparrow, the “wisest of birds.” According to the Zhuangzi, “If its eyes do not spot a suitable place, it will not look twice. If it happens to drop the nut it is carrying, it will simply abandon it and continue on its way. It is wary of people, and yet it lives among them, protected within the altars of grain and soil.”

If you do everything the way the average startup does it, you should expect average performance. The problem here is, average performance means that you'll go out of business. The survival rate for startups is way less than fifty percent. So if you're running a startup, you had better be doing something odd. If not, you're in trouble.

The Gap Selling Methodology is a sales technique that shifts the focus of the sale from your product to the buyer’s problem.

“You don’t get extreme results without extreme actions.” - Derek Sivers

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

The Japanese companies looked for every point of friction in the manufacturing process and eliminated it.

without intentionality. It’s a fake flow state: time passes quickly and the world fades away

If you incentivize hitting the schedule on time, overtime, it will cost people to hit the schedule every time. If you incentivize shipping the best version of something, you will tend to ship the best version of something.