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John Collison: "We only had 50 users two years after founding Stripe."
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Not pouring your whole soul into your work is anti-life. In art, in business, in all endeavours alike. Do you think Dostoyevsky ever had to use the Pomodoro technique to get himself to write The Brothers Karamazov? Do you think Steve Jobs, when he created the Macintosh, was focused solely on finding the cheapest parts and lowering overhead costs?... See more
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The importance of patience and cultivation in well-doing, emphasizing the long, invisible process between planting and reaping.
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Eugene Peterson suggests that the person who looks for quick results in the seed planting of well-doing will be disappointed.
If I want potatoes for dinner tomorrow, it will do me little good to go out and plant potatoes in my garden tonight.
There are long stretches of darkness and invisibility and silence that separate planting and reaping.
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... See moreThe ultimate competitive advantage is loving what you do. In the long run, it’s hard to beat someone who loves the game.
Kyle Tibbittsx.com“My deepest insecurity is that I have these intuitions about things that I cannot explain to anyone,” Kushner told Rubin as they sat in his garden overlooking the ocean. “Sometimes I see or experience something and it makes sense to me, I fall in love, but I cannot explain why. Like when Thrive invested in Instagram or Spotify or OpenAI. I could... See more
The New World: Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream
Spend less time focusing on "discipline," and more time in things that genuinely pull you forward...
The person who requires internal force, will always get lapped by someone with genuine drive toward that thing.
Obsession beats discipline all day long.
Dr. Julie Gurnerx.comProductivity is often a distraction. Don’t aim for better ways to get through your tasks as quickly as possible. Instead aim for better tasks that you never want to stop doing.
