The Long Run
“Good thing we aren’t penalized for handing in our purpose late. The soul doesn’t know a thing about deadlines.” - Jeff Brown
lisa added 6mo ago
a thought after listening to Dave Fontenot on Invest like the Best:
social media shifts our relationship with time because you feel like there’s an endless number of things you have to sift through, and time starts to feel limited.
there's something about feeling a sense of abundant time that's really powerful and conducive to flow state - how do we
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Our ideal outcome as a company is not becoming the next Facebook (god forbid), it’s becoming the next Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hot spring hotel in Japan, and one of the world’s oldest businesses (founded in 705 AD).
lisa added 6mo ago
If you’re thinking about an idea that you can solve in your lifetime, you’re thinking too small. - Wes Jackson
lisa added 6mo ago
“Later that same week, I chatted about this in a coaching session with Kristine Claghorn. I asked her, “Now that I am wiser and I know what happens when I burn out, how do I find joy in my work again?” And she asked me a question that changed my perspective instantly: “What would happen if you took the pressure off? What would work feel like then?”
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- dreamers addicted to reality instead of realists addicted to dreams. -Neri Oxman on what she looks for when hiring
lisa added 6mo 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."
lisa added 4mo ago
The goal is to enlighten the newcomer while providing a novel twist that will please the expert. - When Einstein Walked With Godel
lisa added 6mo ago
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