“I want to do a different thing. I want to actually improve over time. I want to develop my own takes. I want to understand everything. And this is how the podcast improves over the long run too - by me becoming smarter and learning more shit. That is the underlying beta. Everything else is a temporary benefit at best (and more often, a total

If someone tells you to follow your passion, it means they’re already rich.

Scott Galloway

“In an expanding universe time is on the side of the outcast”

— Quentin Crisp via Laura Marling

• Can we re-frame this in terms of the customer’s problem?

• What’s the soonest we could get this done?

• What would you need to get this done tomorrow instead of next week?

• What would we need to do to get twice as many customers? Ten times as many customers?

• How does this relate to our goal? Is this the most important thing we can do for our goal?

• What’s mos

“If something strikes me as interesting or beautiful, first I live that experience. Only afterward might I attempt to understand it.

Though we can’t change what it is that we are noticing, we can change our ability to notice.”

— Rick Rubin The Creative Act

“I’ve never done morning pages, or speedily written a shitty first draft. I edit my sentences as I write them, like a coward!”
— Haley Nahman, Beyond routines

Steve Blank says, “A startup is not a small version of a big company.” Great ideas don’t come from mimicking corporates, or anyone else for that matter. The best ideas come from discovering specific new insights about customers and developing new ways to satisfy their unmet needs. In short, run your own race.

Matt Lerner

Anne Lamott, on using writing to open a door:

"There is a door we all want to walk through, and writing can help you find it and open it. Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you soften, can wake you up. But publishing won’t do any of those things; you’ll never get in that way."

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