NeverBeNeedy
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved. Helen Keller
Ralph Waldo Emerson • Self-Reliance
The quicker you want something, the easier it is to manipulate you.
Brain Food: New Beginnings
When your product creates something users feel compelled to share publicly, you unlock network effects that paid marketing simply can't match. The most valuable feature might not be the most technically impressive one, but rather the one that makes users look good when they share it.
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Charlie Munger: Your goal in life should be to build a seamless web of deserved trust; work with the people in this web, and do life with these people – it is all about the people
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Richard Feynman on passion, curiosity, and living fully:
“ Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t... See more
“ Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t... See more
Brain Food: Embracing Life
In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency.
Shane Parrish • Tweet
As software costs go down, the moat for software disappears; the moats that remain are network, brand, scale, and data
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If you want a starting point, Emerson’s Self-Reliance and On Nature