Laurence Chen
@laurencec
Generalist
Laurence Chen
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“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
“The hurt from getting beaten only lasts a little while, but the hurt from giving up without a fight never goes away.” – John Taylor Gatto
Curate connect organize lead – Seth Godin
Your success as a leader is how much good people do thanks to your presence. Your legacy as a leader is how much good people keep doing in your absence. –Adam Grant
Generalists have the advantage of interdisciplinary knowledge, which fosters creativity and a firmer understanding of how the world works. They have a better overall perspective and can generally perform second-order thinking in a wider range of situations than the specialist can.
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“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”
―Miles Davis
When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is—you’re participating more fully in the
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The tweet that can be retweeted is not the eternal kernel. Lather, rinse, retweet. This too is panicky. [Twitter tagline, Laurence Chen]