values
by Barbara · updated 2mo ago
values
If you try to find time for your most valued activities by first dealing with all the other important demands on your time, in the hope that there’ll be some left over at the end, you’ll be disappointed. So if a certain activity really matters to you – a creative project, say, though it could just as easily be nurturing a relationship, or activism
... See morefrom Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count. by Oliver Burkeman
Barbara added 5mo ago
- 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.”
from 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
from Make Something to Learn More About What's Inside You by Sari Azout
Barbara added 4mo ago
creation over consumption
- The fundamental message of marketing must change from "we want your money" to "we share your interests".
from WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO by Jeff Jarvis
Barbara added 5mo ago
- And which is more important, really? The truth, or the story one tells about the truth?
from Beautiful Disasters by Alex Dobrenko`
Barbara added 5mo ago
- We can't build a sustainable business by chasing every opportunity.
A sustainable business is strategically constrained. Its leaders know what the business is and, more importantly, what it's not.from Why Nachos Aren't on the Menu by Tara McMullin
Barbara added 5mo ago
“The meaning of life is to find your gift and the purpose of life is to give it away” – Shakespeare
from Chip Conley: Building Empires, Tackling Cancer, and Surfing the Liminal - The Tim Ferriss Show • Podcast Notes by Chip Conley
Barbara added 5mo ago
- 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
from Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - The New York Times bestseller by Tony Fadell
Barbara added 5mo ago
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