Jonathan Quaade
@jonathanquaade
Jonathan Quaade
When evaluating a company, one of my favorite questions to ask is whether it has an aesthetic.
We don’t talk about aesthetics as the highest form of brand or story or a reflection of team cohesion, because investing on “vibes” or “look” or “mood” is very frowned upon. Even using it as a data point is beaten out of... See more
Katherine Boylex.comwhy competing with Costco is so hard to do the firm is not interested in today's static assessment of performance it is managing the business as to raise the probability of
long-term success when Costco continues to recycle cost savings to the consumer it is lowering the probability of failure
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
I really believe that you should love your tools, and that by loving them it encourages you to connect with them and use them when you otherwise might not.
Welcome to New Possibilities
Repeat the mission over and over.
Repeat the yearly goals over and over.
Repeat the quarterly goals over and over.
Say it so many times, the team tells you to stop saying it and then keep saying it. It needs to become like a reflex.
- Lesson learnt after Dao asked me what our goals were and I didn’t know the details.
he says in our opinion just a few things in life are noble and it is because just a few things are noble that noad has just a few Investments the Church of diversification is seen as an insurance against any one idea being wrong we would propose that if knowledge is a source of value ad and few things can be known for sure then it Li logically
... See moreFounders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
So there has to be some year where you decide: in this part of my life, I know what I value. I am choosing; I am committing. And now I’m thinking of another idea I came across years ago—it must have been after I’d finished my bachelor’s, when I first started working as a designer—about devoting a year to going deeper, not wider.
and since i have never said ‘youth must end,’ youth will not end
In 2015, the ex-Chairman of BBH London, Jim Carroll recalled his realisation 32 years earlier that aerodynamic tests had begun to make all cars look alike:
“Some of you will recall the day in 1983 when we woke up and noticed that the cars all looked the same. There was a simple explanation. They’d all been through the same wind tunnel. We nodded... See more
“Some of you will recall the day in 1983 when we woke up and noticed that the cars all looked the same. There was a simple explanation. They’d all been through the same wind tunnel. We nodded... See more
