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Every time you talk to someone, you should be asking at least one question which has the potential to destroy your currently imagined business.
Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
Before they began, the group codified a set of organizing principles, dubbed the “Pirate Paradigm,” that would dictate how they worked together:
- Don’t wait to be told to do something; figure it out for yourself
- Challenge everything, and steel yourself for the inevitable cynicism, opposition, rumors, false reporting, innuendos, and slander
- Break the
How NASA's Pirate Paradigm Challenged The Status Quo — NOBL
NASA Pirate Paradigm
From age 20-50, I can't stress this enough: https://t.co/l6dcTVpsTD
“I know a lot of people who make things who don’t stand proudly by their stuff, I don’t know if they’re too cool or they don’t want to look thirsty, but they’ll put a song out once on their stories — and that’s it.
You went through something. You figured something out in a structured format. You recorded it. Not just one take. Parts and parts. You
If your desire is genuinely unleashed and you are obsessively focused on what you want, you will be called to do whatever it takes to make your dream a reality. There are no limits to the energy and flexibility you'll have in pursuit of what you want. In your heart, you know massive action is the cure-all. - Tony Robbins
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Kevin Kelly
Asking “what-if?” about your past is a waste of time; asking “what-if?” about your future is tremendously productive.
Kevin Kelly
Asking “what-if?” about your past is a waste of time; asking “what-if?” about your future is tremendously productive.
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Start with what you want to achieve, instead of limiting yourself to what’s realistic or sustainable.
Will Guidara • Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
You I and everyone else are like this hourglass. When we start in the morning, there are hundreds of tasks which we feel that we must accomplish that day, but if we do not take them one at a time and let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, as do the grains of sand passing through the narrow neck of the hourglass, then we are bound to break
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