Manifesto

When hiring, look for people with the right attitude. Skills can be taught. Attitude changes require a brain transplant.

Walter Isaacson • Elon Musk

“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.” – Kurt Vonnegut

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Why Are We Surprised That

Startups Are So Freaking Hard?

We think they can be hacked, but the only enduring moat is effort

Benn Stancil • Why Are We Surprised That Startups Are So Freaking Hard?

disturbed by the narrative of technological inevitability — of unstoppable advancement toward a world of human obsolescence — that removes the human responsibility to think critically about how technologies are built and introduced into society

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To encourage trial and error, set a goal for the minimum number of mistakes you want to make per day or per week. When you expect to stumble, you ruminate about it less—and improve more.

Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

We’re good at learning by tinkering—which is fortunate, because we’re terrible at getting things right the first time.

Bent Flyvbjerg • How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

“Strategy is accepting that you are doing something better than the other and the other is doing something better than you. You have to pick your fight.”

- Axel Dumas, CEO of Hermes

The key question is not how long people have done a job. It’s how well they can learn to do a job.

Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

I believe it's easier to grow your business through relationships when your work is your passion. Talking about work doesn't become Sales, rather shared interest. And it works like a magnet, it connects you with like-minded people naturally.