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
The game of life just like any other game is meant to be played,so avoid those conversations about challenges and problems,just play it in order to became a better and better player.
Clean up Your Subconscious Mind
Inspo and Motivation
"Failure is a data point."
Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC
So many business leaders and entrepreneurs started with the dictum: "bigger and better"
I want to have a company with 200 people, 300 people. I want to be growing my company and scaling it and then selling it and exiting.
And that's right for some people, but the number of individuals I've worked with who along the way have realized, actually,
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
More and more, I think my issues with conventional productivity advice – indeed, with the very notion of productivity – boil down to this: Spending your days trying to get through a list of things you feel you have to do is a fundamentally joyless and soul-destroying way to live; and most productivity problems, like distraction or procrastination... See more
As a lower bound, you have to like your work more than any unproductive pleasure. You have to like what you do enough that the concept of "spare time" seems mistaken. Which is not to say you have to spend all your time working. You can only work so much before you get tired and start to screw up. Then you want to do something else—even something... See more
Paul Graham • How to Do What You Love
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” — Thomas Campbell
A great way to get out of your head and into your world is to do a task you can actually finish.
Jon Acuff • Soundtracks
people’s biggest bottleneck eventually becomes their ability to get leverage—i.e., to find and execute work that has a big impact-per-hour multiplier