values
Anu Atluru writes:
“I have a theory that chasing things that scale makes you need therapy, and the therapy is pursuing things that can’t scale. I once wrote that every entrepreneur’s dream is to succeed at building an impossibly hard business and then finally open a local coffee shop to be happy.”
Notes on scale + quality
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Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the local newspaper. It’d take an hour, tops, out of their day. 1 hour out of 16 waking hours, or 6%. The rest of the day was spent making, creating value, conversing with others — 94%. Desires were simple — work for food and housing and a way to get around, find love, rai... See more
Sari Azout • Make Something to Learn More About What's Inside You
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creation over consumption
Inconsistency sends mixed signals. Confusing. Lack of responsibility. Here..there.. hot.. cold.. Like water, you don’t want your shower water to fluctuate.
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Cashing in for short-term pleasure leads to long-term agony.
— Ray Dalio
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By recognizing the higher-level consequences nature optimizes for, I've come to see that people who overweigh the first-order consequences of their decisions and ignore the effects of second- and subsequent-order consequences rarely reach their goals. This is because first-order consequences often have opposite desirabilities from second-order cons
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secondary effect — longevity thinking
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Most tech companies break out product management and product marketing into two separate roles: Product management defines the product and gets it built. Product marketing writes the messaging—the facts you want to communicate to customers—and gets the product sold. But from my experience that’s a grievous mistake. Those are, and should always be, ... See more
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - The New York Times bestseller
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The fundamental message of marketing must change from "we want your money" to "we share your interests".
Jeff Jarvis • WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO
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