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
You might as well have fun with life...
It will kick you, drag you down, and throw you sideways - but if you can take it & keep coming back for more, it's hard to lose.
Take some chances, dive in & decide that it's okay to take hits - and that's how you really start winning.
Dr. Julie Gurnerx.comYour chances of fixing the company are significantly greater if you take care of yourself first and make sure you’re in the right headspace before making sudden decisions.
Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC
George Mack on how your personal brand is defined not by how similar you are to the tribe, but what eccentricities make you stand out from it:
"Only the irrational behaviour survives - If you study the biographies of the greats or attend the funerals of people you care about — the normal rational behavior is never mentioned. Instead, it’s filled
... See moreThis is contrarian value. When you decide to attack or neglect something in the category that everyone else cares about and in doing so unlock new territory.
Alex M H Smith • No Bullsh*t Strategy
Clarifying your thinking and explaining the origins of your ideas. (Why do I think this? What exactly do I think?)
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
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
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
- Mary Oliver
Quotes and Mental Health
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”.