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
Confidence isn’t a quality we are born with or something that magically happens; it’s built through action. To create confidence, you need to get started. Every time you act, you bet on yourself and gather evidence that you can do what you set out to do.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
4 questions of organizations [about using AI].
- What did you do that was valuable that's no longer valuable?
- What impossible things can you now do that you could not before?
- What can you democratize and bring down market?
- What can you do upmarket so you have new ways of competing?
Ethan Mollick, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenamcgregor/2024/
Selling is a discipline that can be learned like any other. It’s a matter of first deciding to believe that what you are selling is valuable, helpful and worth the money (it is!). Then understanding who it can help, what results and feelings they are seeking and how your product provides the answer. You have to stretch your comfort zone. And you
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Quotes and Underestimating the Future
Olsen’s comment was actually about computers controlling homes, but it was interpreted as skepticism about the personal computer, becoming legendary for how wrong it seemed in retrospect
https://martech.zone/failed-predictions/
Thinking clearly is a conscious act that writers must force on themselves, as if they were working on any other project that requires logic: … doing an algebra problem.
Good writing doesn’t come naturally, though most people seem to think it does.
On Writing Well, William Zinsser
It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life—that’s persistence.
Ryan Holiday • The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Inspo and Motivation
Your job isn’t to be “good”. Your job is to offer something specific which some people will think is good, and some people will probably think is bad.