Katharina Sommerkamp
@katsommerkamp
Katharina Sommerkamp
We only get value from finishing projects, and getting a project over the finish line is the magical moment it goes from risk to leverage. Time spent getting work finished is always time well spent.
lethain.com • Work on What Matters.
Success is more than reaching our goals—it’s living our values. There’s no higher value than aspiring to be better tomorrow than we are today.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Vincent Van Gogh on the accumulation of small things:
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The trick is to focus on the first small thing. Starting small is still starting, and small beginnings often lead to extraordinary endings.”
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The trick is to focus on the first small thing. Starting small is still starting, and small beginnings often lead to extraordinary endings.”
First, become able to feel conviction even in the face of high uncertainty. Second, learn how to weigh your options so hard that by the time you've picked the best available action, no part of you has an urge to go back into "deliberation mode" until you encounter new evidence or ideas that would have changed the result of your deliberation. Third,... See more
Nate Soares • Dive in
The best way to learn something is to teach it. You understand it better after you explain it—and you remember it better after you take the time to recall it.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
To echo Cassy Kazyrkov, former decision scientist at Google: “Today’s AI revolution isn’t an AI revolution at all. It’s a UX revolution.”
Medium
“ To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. ”