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#24 Who do you serve?
If you think my ideas are dumb, great! I'm not writing for you. Focus on the people that care about what you have to offer. People that get grumpy at what you are offering suck. Go find the people that give a damn and focus on them.
If you think my ideas are dumb, great! I'm not writing for you. Focus on the people that care about what you have to offer. People that get grumpy at what you are offering suck. Go find the people that give a damn and focus on them.
Paul Millerd • Tweet
Every time you talk to someone, you should be asking at least one question which has the potential to destroy your currently imagined business.
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At the other side of the spectrum from boredom is addiction—not a disengagement but its dark reverse, a pathological degree of repetition or perseverance.
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Before they began, the group codified a set of organizing principles, dubbed the “Pirate Paradigm,” that would dictate how they worked together:
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- Challenge everything, and steel yourself for the inevitable cynicism, opposition, rumors, false reporting, innuendos, and slander
- Break the
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NASA Pirate Paradigm
“The one who boasts does so only out of a feeling of inferiority.”