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.

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"It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it." - Roger Ebert applies to every creative project

Content

"A generalist who can execute with AI"!

Quotes

"One kind of entrepreneur you say, Whose need am I satisfying today? [...] The other kind, to quote Michael Schraig here, is to say, the purpose of my business is to change people, to change them from something into something else. This is the kind of business that we remember generations later"

Vision

“When you’re trying to be original, you sound like everyone else trying to be original.” - Dan Klein

Quotes and Content

“A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its wings.”

Charlie Wardle

Quotes

A mentor once told me: "One of the biggest reasons people stay stuck is that you can’t keep one foot in your old life and one in your new one. There’s no halfway version of growth. Decide who you want to be, and act like it. Every single damn day."

Blake Burge x.com

Motivation

"We see these examples time and again, that the setting in which you try to do your most smart, creative, cognitive work really matters. And if that setting is the same place that you do shallow work (where you do your taxes and your emails and your zooms) your mind is going to have a hard time getting into the deep work mode. The answer is to have

Productivity

Never accept failure as final. You will probably fail, but you don’t have to like it…and it’s best if you don’t. Refuse to stay down. Keep going.

Dr. Julie Gurner x.com

Motivation

i've seen mediocre people accomplish great things by sticking around and putting in the work

nvpkp x.com

Motivation