The antidote to burnout and the existential inquiry it brings seems to be doing things that don’t scale in pursuit of things that can’t scale. It becomes exciting not to see what you can do without limits, but to see what you can do with them.
in the end, striving toward sanity never works. you have to operate from sanity instead. 💯
Even though we try to ship very quickly, sometimes you just have to wait a while for the good stuff.
We initially started work on improving projects and the project page in particular more than 2 years ago at an offsite in Berlin. The initial designs had a lot in common with what we shipped today, where documents play a big role in... See more
In the 2016 shareholder letter, even though he wasn’t explicitly talking about two-pizza teams, Jeff suggested that “most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you’re probably being slow. Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and... See more
incredible to see the growth curve of Acquired, one of the most popular podcasts. if it would've been a startup, it would've been shuttered after two years because of slow growth. good things take time.
“An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.”
— Bonnie Friedman