You waste years by not being able to waste hours.

Whenever you chicken out, you don't just feel the pain of cowardice; you miss out on the pleasure of courage.

“I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea. I am supposed to be one of the more fertile inventors of big ideas, but in my long career as a copywriter I have not had more than 20, if that. Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or... See more

David Ogilvy’s 1982 advice on how to write Including point 4, that using jargon is the “hallmark of a pretentious ass” https://t.co/RDRRMb1KsI

Consumer demand for smaller scale and human-crafted versions of everything will grow in an AI world. While the future of work might lend itself to small business creation, let’s ****not forget the demand side of the equation. We are going to crave artisanal and story-driven sources and experiences. Why? As every big company floods the zone of our a... See more

as every brand floods the zone w/ personalized and ever-optimized content, where will our preferences shift? when anything becomes commoditized and ubiquitous, humans tend to crave the opposite. perhaps "the creator economy" will shift to a "meaning economy?" https://t.co/2Fdsx1oyZa

The formulas for “success” and “failure” are the same It’s the application of small actions/inactions consistently over a long time horizon The difference between these two are the infinite small decisions you make on a daily basis - those little wins compound in dramatic ways

The sub-optimal done consistently trumps the optimal done sporadically. Can't talk about that endlessly on podcasts though.

The current fervor around robotics, particularly humanoid robots, exemplifies this shift. Investors are betting on the most generalizable approaches, driven by the idea that what works in AI will seamlessly translate to robotics. This simplified forecasting could be a testament to the improved speculative ability of modern investors to let go of th... See more