Remind me Often
I love the question @jordancooper asks founders- “if there were one thing i needed to understand to see as much value in your business as you do, what would it be and let’s talk about that.”
Too many businesses don’t really understand that the core of their business is making people feel good. Whether it’s walking into a store or a restaurant, or being on an airplane, most people go through life hoping that good things will happen to them, and they return to businesses that make those things happen.
Alison Beard • Life’s Work: An Interview with Ruth Reichl
“That the only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.”
Joshua Wolf Shenk • What Makes Us Happy?
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
Elizabeth Lesser • Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
Put simply, the masses hate experts. If forced to choose between the advice of the learned and the vague impressions of other people just like themselves , the masses invariably turn to the latter.
Ted Gioia • 15 Observations on the New Phase in Cultural Conflict
Your success here will depend entirely on how successfully you can tell stories, and how successfully other people can repeat those stories, both to themselves and others.Your North Star here has to be: are other people retelling this story successfully?Port cities around the world are more similar to each other than they are to their inland counte... See more
Alex Danco • World Building
I do like Derek’s insights :-)
Loved this talk - the sheer humanity of it!
The Beasts Who Fought For Fairyland Until the Very End--And Further Still
Catherynne M. Valentecatvalente.substack.com
This has been on my reading list for a couple of weeks now - so glad I saved it to read :-)