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
According to him — and this has certainly been the case whenever I’ve done it — your business grows in exact proportion to how many norms you defy, and how ruthlessly you do it. It may very well be the single easiest way to make more sales, build a more influential & popular brand, and create customers that want to buy your every offer — if for no
... See moreBen Settle • BizWorld: How to Create an Irresistible Business Universe Your Customers Love to Buy from and Hate to Leave
Productivity is not drudgery and chores. It’s your ability to take a vision in your head and manifest it in the real world.
Productivity is also not about working harder and longer. It’s about working more efficiently, which means minimizing waste. Think wasted time, effort, energy, or potential.
Productivity is not some random hacks and silver... See more
Productivity is also not about working harder and longer. It’s about working more efficiently, which means minimizing waste. Think wasted time, effort, energy, or potential.
Productivity is not some random hacks and silver... See more
Superhuman
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/
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
If you have time to consume, you have time to create.
100 Simple Truths
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
"It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it — a costly myth."
W. Edwards Deming
It’s taken me a while to warm up to the idea that thinking is working, and that what is actually work can at first look lazy. I love Naval [Ravikant’s tweet], “Be too busy to do coffee while keeping an uncluttered calendar.” More often than not, spending two hours thinking about a problem is a much better use of my time than taking two calls... See more
Sari Azout • Sari Azout on Building Emotional Capital
What were their roots? Why had the company started? How did their backstory influence the work they did today and how might it affect their aspirations for the future?