long-term thinking
musings on long-term thinking in a shortsighted world. we overestimate what we can do in a year, underestimate what we can do in 10 kinda thing.
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long-term thinking
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
Bill Carr • 10 highlights
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the biggest surprise is that the most enduring companies are not mega companies. most of them have under 300 employees.
Doing Good: A Conversation with William MacAskill (Episode #228)
youtube.comA league with 30 intense competitors requires a culture of finding new, better ways to solve repeating problems. In the short term, investing in that sort of innovation often doesn’t look like much progress, if any. Abraham Lincoln said “give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
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short-termism
SpaceXponential and • 2 cards
The fact is, star brands take time to grow. Take some of the small makeup companies we have acquired recently, like Bliss and Urban Decay. When we bought them, they were little start-ups run by their founders—very simple businesses, but with a lot of originality in the products. So now we know we must nurture them until they have some history. But
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The founder of Teenage Engineering opens up to his creative space
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