Ideas I want to write about

World class leaders and companies are never defeated. They decide to defeat themselves by chanting the following mantras:

Cannot sacrifice margin.

New competitors and markets are too niche or too unsophisticated.

Customer and clients will not accept the change.

We do not have the skills and this sounds like a different business.

“When you read your notebooks, you remeet ideas. You reintroduce them to who you are now.” That’s from writer Max Porter’s interview in the book The Work of Art . (As you may know, I’m a huge believer in the importance of revisiting notebooks.)

That sounds fine, wonderful — real nonsense. Do more. More nonsensical, more crazy, more machines, more breasts, penises, cunts, whatever — make them abound with nonsense. Try and tickle something inside you, your “weird humor.” You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world.

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“Mediocre V.C.s want to see that your company has traction,” Doshi told me. “The top V.C.s want you to show them you can invent the future.”

He believes that if you say it often enough and insistently enough it will come—a glorious revenge.

Magritte's work feels like permission to get weird, to surrender to fantasy, to wear fewer clothes—or no clothes at all—to experiment, flirt, be curious, and get a little unhinged. It is a time to mingle with the mythical creatures that exist in perpetual summer, unicorns and nymphs endlessly trapped in a lush dreamscape. And doesn't summer always... See more