Manifesto
From living at work, to working at living
Acts, not careers
If I had to put the recipe for genius into one sentence, that might be it: to have a disinterested obsession with something that matters.
Paul Graham • The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
Optimize for legacy, not empire. Empires die because they’re alone, legacies live because they involve others.
-OH, on building teams and brand communities
When two people work on a shared project – a joke, a product, an essay, a story – and are able to understand and build on each other, that’s the peak of the human condition.
Shreyas Hariharan • The Goal is Resonance | Shreyas Hariharan
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.”
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Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
A quote by Mark Twain
how many people you touched > how many people you reached
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
beware of mistaking past accomplishments and experience for future potential. Background and talent determine where people start, but character skills shape how far they can climb.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Success is more than reaching our goals—it’s living our values. There’s no higher value than aspiring to be better tomorrow than we are today.