Joe Stampone
@joestampone
Joe Stampone
“You don’t need to feel good to get going. You need to get going to give yourself a chance at feeling good.”
Japanese saying on the art of thoughtful elimination:
“Your garden is not complete until there is nothing else you can take out of it.”
In this world we have two kinds of knowledge. One is Planck knowledge, the people who really know. They’ve paid the dues, they have the aptitude. And then we’ve got chauffeur knowledge. They’ve learned the talk. They may have a big head of hair, they may have fine temper in the voice, they’ll make a hell of an impression. But in the end, all they h... See more
Shane Parrish • Two Types of Knowledge: The Max Planck/Chauffeur Test
"There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don't know, and those who don't know they don't know."
- Howard Marks
“You don’t have to do exceptional things to get exceptional results.”
Writing is the process by which you realize that you do not understand what you are talking about.
The Thinker & The Doer (Time Onsite & in market)
“My observation is that the doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker and doer in one person. And if we really go back and we examine, you know, did Leonardo have a guy off to the side that was thinking five years out
Most people are too loyal to their distractions to ever meet their destiny.
The courage isn't in taking on more, it's in cutting off everything that doesn't feed your goal.
Focus requires subtraction.
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
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