The business of business
Remember that nothing is perfect on its own. Everything good in life requires effort, a daily deposit. The grass isn't greener on the other side, the grass is greener where you water it.
— Sahil Bloom
Finding green grass
Keep taking things away
Repurposing content
Leadership, it turns out, is the courage to stay in the room when things get messy.
Showing up even when you don’t want to
Being a part of something
she didn’t start renting office space or buying business cards; rather, she just began emailing every single person she knew. Her parents, friends, college professors, former coworkers, internet friends … everyone she could think of. She wrote each one a personal email stating she had left her radio job, she was now working as a freelance writer,
... See morePaul Jarvis • Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business
we should create products that make specifically identified groups of people very happy and ignore everyone else.
Paul Jarvis • Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business
When you deal with people who have trouble, you can either choose to taken the token that says “it’s no big deal” or the token that says “it’s the end of the world”. Whichever token you pick, they’ll take the other.
If you’re talking about something new or novel, you’ll have to repeat yourself for years before you’re heard.