Hasan Riaz

Jason Zweig (WSJ) on how beginner’s luck can lead you down a catastrophic path and why failing fast & early can have its advantages:

“Being right is the enemy of staying right because it leads you to forget the way the world works.”

Freud (The Future of Illusion) on culture & the minority rule:

"One gets the impression that culture is something imposed on a reluctant majority by a minority that managed to gain possession of the instruments of power and coercion"

Eisenhower on how you must always prepare, but be ready to be flexible in the moment: “Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”

Another example of this is Curb Your Enthusiasm. There is a script, but it provides a loose structure. Within that boundary, Larry David is free to improv and iterate as much as he wants.

Shane Parrish lays this ou

Vince Lombardi on “soul in the game”:

"The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more"

Brian Halligan on why you shouldn't hire the person with the fewest weaknesses: "It’s like you’re an ice climber going up the ice, and it’s treacherous and you could easily slip, and what you’re looking for are executive members who have been up that same sheet of ice, but in the last three or four years. What you don’t want is somebody who spent t

Luck = Preparation + Opportunity (Seneca)

Lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles:

1) They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities

2) They make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition

3) They create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations

4) They adopt a resilient attitude that transf

Miles Cannon-Brookes on the importance of disagreement within teams (especially applicable to team leaders):

"Disagreement with seniority in a constructive way usually shows that the team has their shit together. It means that they know more than you do and that's good. They inevitably should know more than I do."

Eric Meijer (former Meta engineer) on the difference between running large teams producing an average consistent product vs. small teams producing a high-quality differentiated product:

"Large companies are like McDonalds. You need lots of processes to create a bland product with consistent quality using average employees. Small companies are like M

Daniel Ek (episode on Acquired podcast) on how constraints breed creativity:

“Constrained growth is a plus. It helped Spotify learn how to come out with a compelling product before it broke into US market. The geographic isolation also helped insulate Spotify’s culture and build something from first principles rather than osmosis from the existing