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Another important property of the frontier is its lawlessness. If the law is congealed power, its absence means freedom, and freedom is essential to how the frontier and its inhabitants operate. It's not that startups flout the law (although some of them skirt it), but rather they operate in areas where the law hasn't (yet) stifled innovation. The

was in love with the result—the image of me on stage, people cheering, me rocking out, pouring my heart into what I was playing—but I wasn’t in love with the process. And because of that, I failed at

a fact no one can reproduce is no fact at all.

My rule of thumb for project managers is that if it takes longer than two weeks to get into the field, you need to scale it back and go smaller. Think you’ll eventually want to do this at scale with a letter, but the mail room is backed up?

Always make the other person feel important.

from startup companies to communication protocols. As he wrote in “The Greatest Game“: When creating new technology companies, a framework I use to understand if something has an ability to win is ‘the 10x advantage’.

Meaning that, unless a new company (the challenger) can deliver a 10x advantage to the market, it has no chance of creating escape

15. Goal Dilution Effect:

We assume that the more arguments we give, the better our case. In reality, our weakest arguments dilute the strongest. Generally, you’ll only be as convincing as your worst point, so instead of making as many arguments as you can, make only the best.

These patterns of evolved solutions included psychological principles like scarcity (making the offer feel limited or scarce) and social proof (illustrating existing consumption to reinforce trust in the product’s quality).

When I was growing up, I would watch and learn. If someone I respected spoke of someone they respected, I would take note of it. And I would see what and who they admired, and my pool would connect with them all.