Thought provoking

Given the above, you might be surprised to learn that until about a year ago I didn’t primarily think of myself as a writer. I thought of myself as a founder who liked to write. About a year ago, I decided to flip that: I started to think of myself as a writer who also builds things.

Dan Shipper • Every’s Master Plan

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7/23/24

There’s a tremendous friction that arises when you don’t allow yourself to do what you really want to do with your life. You make a lot of halfway decisions to negotiate your competing priorities: what you want, and what you want to want.

Dan Shipper • Every’s Master Plan

Lisa Dunford Dickman added 4mo

Lisa Dunford Dickman added 4mo

There is a big difference between the existence of knowledge in some other place and its availability to the right people in the right place at the right time. The crux of the matter is knowing how to integrate and organize fragmented, scattered and thinly spread knowledge.

-Dominique Foray The Economics of Knowledge

Lisa Dunford Dickman added 4mo

Lisa Dunford Dickman added 4mo

Experience. Don’t observe.

Inhale. Don’t read.

Transfigure. Don’t shift.

Advocate. Don’t ponder.

Prove. Don’t promise.

Encourage. Don’t cut.

Imagine. Don’t worry.

Do. Don’t analyze.

Hear. Don’t listen.

Show. Don’t tell.

Give. Don’t take.

wearecollins.com • 101 Design Rules

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