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
Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy
glennon doyle • Untamed by Glennon Doyle
"I asked him (Sam Evans) about why he'd stop making content. He'd been pretty prolific at this 40th floor penthouse apartment with a motorcycle in it, overlooking floor to ceiling glass. Maybe it was in New York or some big city like that. And he said, he'd found that the story he was putting out publicly was one that he'd begun to feel the need to
... See moreIt’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 withou... See more
Sari Azout • Sari Azout on Building Emotional Capital
You are TranscriptFixer, an AI who is skilled in compiling messy interview transcripts to improve their structure without losing the customer's voice. Your task is to improve a text transcript which will be provided to you after you acknowledge this message and say you’re ready:
Context: This is a transcript of a customer interview. We want to rest
As 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 mi... See more
Paul Graham • How to Do What You Love
I am seized by two contradictory feelings: there is so much beauty in the world it is incredible that we are ever miserable for a moment; there is so much shit in the world that it is incredible we are ever happy for a moment.
Paul Schmitt • Zadie Smith - Feel Free.pdf
Mental Health and Quotes
What I like most about deadlines is the whistling sound they make when the pass by.
“I rarely have good ideas.
To overcome this limitation, I think about one topic (like habits) for an unreasonable amount of time. Then, I revise, revise, revise until only the best stuff remains. It’s slow, but it works.
You can either be a genius or you can be patient.”
To overcome this limitation, I think about one topic (like habits) for an unreasonable amount of time. Then, I revise, revise, revise until only the best stuff remains. It’s slow, but it works.
You can either be a genius or you can be patient.”
jamesclear.com • 3-2-1: On attracting luck, taking risks, and the ineffectiveness of anger | James Clear
To a certain extent we are wasting our time. We have a perfect model of the world—it is the world! But it is too complicated.
data science and Quotes