Johann Van Tonder
@jvt
20 years in ecommerce, now CEO of a CRO agency. Probably doing analysis in R or building stuff with AI. Or walking on the beach. Yeah, probably that.
Johann Van Tonder
What I like most about deadlines is the whistling sound they make when the pass by.
If we strip everything else away, the reason we need an ability to learn is to help us find and obtain food. We need fuel to learn, and we need learning to find a source of fuel…’ (Ratey & Hagerman, 2009).
I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Quotes and Mental Health
- On Luck
"'Give yourself a lot of shots to get lucky' is even better advice than it appears on the surface. Luck isn’t an independent variable but increases super-linearly with more surface area—you meet more people, make more connections between new ideas, learn patterns, etc."
-- Sam Altman - @johnrushx Luck is a multiplier. Lets call it M. 🍀 Positive +M is good luck, negative -M is bad luck. Output = WORK * M. If you do 0 work then being lucky doesn’t matter, M * 0 = 0.
An unfortunate fact of corporate life is that a subset of your colleagues who claim to have “strong opinions, weakly held” in reality demonstrate “strong opinions, aggressively defended, rarely reconsidered, but happily changed if that’s what the bosses want”.
- Try to always keep in mind that people who are unafraid to speak the truth are better for you than people who are unafraid to tell you lies. It won’t feel better. But they are better.
Our identity, our storyline, is created by what we repeat. It becomes what we believe.
Andy HS
If the problem is caused by the thinking mind, it won’t be solved with the thinking mind - always not good enough, internal story lines etc
Andy Headspace