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
"I frequently worry that being productive is the surest way to lull ourselves into a trance of passivity and busyness the greatest distraction from living, as we coast through our lives day after day, showing up for our obligations but being absent from our selves, mistaking the doing for the being." — Maria Popova
"Everything we build has two outputs that could create value : what we make and what we learn. In the project model, we lose most of what we learn. When we want to work on that area again, we spend time and money relearning things we already paid for once. Or, more likely, not learning them, and making costly mistakes."
Marty Cagan
Quotes and
In 1903, the New York Times predicted it would take 1–10 million years to invent a working airplane.
The Wright brothers made their first powered flight just 9 weeks later.
One of the biggest life hacks I know in hard times:
- Instead of fighting others, be the person "serving" others.
Bring great information, inspiration & support. Serve them in your work, your community, and online.
Be the reason others rise...
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Dr. Julie Gurnerx.comI hope people realize, you can reclaim your life at any time.
With rare exception, you can mess up, be down on your luck, and lose almost everything and rebuild.
This is always the season.
You start where you start.
Use the holiday as an excuse to give yourself... See more
Dr. Julie Gurnerx.comAs 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