patience
- Here’s a simple mnemonic you can use the next time you arrive at a line: “W.A.I.T.”
WAIT stands for W hy are you being an A sshole, I t’s not like any of us want T o be here either.
Remember: “Waiting in Line” is a critical skill of human beings, and one of the basic building blocks of a decent society. If you’d like to see what life would be like w... See morefrom Lines: A Beginner’s Guide by Shalom Auslander
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- VC requirement for SaaS companies to scale to $10M ARR in record time is BS. UiPath: $500K 10 years in. Klaviyo: $1M ARR 3 years in. Lightspeed: $10M ARR 8 years in. It takes time to nail true customer love. Be patient, stay lean, remain super close to your customer.
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Luxury takes time to be achieved and to be appreciated. Luxury cannot and must not move fast.
-Giorgio Armani
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Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."
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Boy, I hurried... I hurried for a long time. I'm sorry I did. All the time you're hurrying, you're not really as aware as you should be. You're trying to make things happen instead of just letting it happen. You follow me?
-Bob Dylan
sari added 2mo ago
- Don’t give up easily . Stick with it. Stick with it not forever, but really give it a chance to get where you’re going.
How many people have that kind of patience, persistence, and confidence?from The Algorithm Behind Jim Simons's Success
alex added 2mo ago
Jerry Seinfeld:
"You must master waiting. 'Show's gonna be delayed a half hour.' Fine. Plane's gonna be delayed two hours. Fine. Career's gonna be delayed five years, Fine."
phoebe added 2mo ago
- The way of the tourist is to consume; the way of the pilgrim is to be consumed. To the tourist the journey is a means. The pilgrim understands that it is both a means and an end in itself. The tourist and the pilgrim experience time differently. For the former, time is the foe that gives consumption its urgency. For the latter, time is a gift in wh... See more
from The Tourist and the Pilgrim
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