patience
- Moxie Marlinspike's career advice: There’s no rush to get started early on a never-ending task. Everything before a career has defined beginnings and endings. Elementary school, middle school, junior high, highschool, university. There’s always been a predefined end, and that contributes a lot to making the indignities of those institutions b... See more
Alara added 1y ago
adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
sari added 7mo ago
this insight from Visa:
when you have a game-changing insight you’ll often have to repeat it for 5-7 years before people start to really get it
sari added 1y ago
- Some things take time. Some things take years before you see how it comes together. But the more you can remember the wholeness of it all, the more you will find that despite your unknowing, the grass, the trees, and the creatures throughout this vast landscape are still growing, and somehow, through it all, it all works together, and you too, are ... See more
phoebe added 1y ago
- 100x method — "the most successful things I’ve done have one thing in common: I’ve done them at least 100 times." if you want to start a project, commit to 100 iterations. 1. takes you past the dip: the inevitable downturn when you feel stuck/bored/ frustrated, or when your project isn’t taking off the way you hoped. 2. sets a goal unde... See more
alex added 1y ago
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."
sari added 5mo ago
Impatience is an argument with reality - Rick Rubin
Natalie Audelo added 9mo ago
Luxury takes time to be achieved and to be appreciated. Luxury cannot and must not move fast.
-Giorgio Armani
sari added 4mo 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 5mo ago
Chamath on the importance of slow compounding:
“The faster you build it, that is the half life: it will get destroyed in the same amount of time.”
Things tend to come and go, tip to one side and then the other, tide out and back in, grow and then rot, get created and destroyed, at the same speed.sari added 7mo ago