Jonathan Quaade
@jonathanquaade
Jonathan Quaade
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit . If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question — you have to want to know — in order to open up the space for the answer to fit. [1]
Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers
questions are the guide to life
Clayton Christensen speaking to Jason Fried
Understand the specific moves a writer is making, in as much detail as possible. This involves a lot of close reading and reverse outlining. I’m essentially taking apart an essay and making extremely pedantic, precise observations: 12 paragraphs; first paragraph is 6 sentences long and opens with a quote, then context for the quote, then 2 short... See more
Celine Nguyen • how to begin
The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself.
paulgraham.com • How to Get Startup Ideas
Worse, we often do the same thing at the end of a session before moving on to whatever else we need to do. You’re spending as much as two hours a day in these transitional phases where you’re not really doing anything intentional, and you end up wondering where the day went.
So I created a rule for myself, based on advice I read from Josh Waitzkin... See more
So I created a rule for myself, based on advice I read from Josh Waitzkin... See more
Internal triggers are the primary culprit of distraction. When negative feelings well up inside of you, your brain looks for refuge in something that will numb or distract. The thing you choose to distract yourself is the symptom of the internal trigger.
Ben Putano • Distraction Starts From Within
Culture is the deepest moat one can create.
Soleio from indie interview
Look for the story that needs changing and then create a new reality where that story can live. Give your users new proof, new evidence, new rules. Give them a new architecture to build their stories on top of.
Give them all of the props and staging they need in order to step inside the new narrative.
Give them all of the props and staging they need in order to step inside the new narrative.
branding, strategy and positioning and
Jasmine Bina, Concept Bureau
