Stephen Black
@maithmobile
Art, Asia and augmented reality. Bubiko. innerstate. Books and food.
Stephen Black
bookmerah.medium.com
The Solution• For Overthinkers: "You don't need a to-do list. you need to clean your toilet." - David Allen• For Hustlers: "Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are getting there." - Stephen Covey
Daniel Kazandjian • Meta Productivity w/ Daniel Kazandjian
A “small giant” is a company that chooses to optimize for mojo instead of growth.
Small Giants // Metamuse podcast episode 24
Having a lot of social media followers or fame doesn’t guarantee it will sell. The singer Billie Eilish, despite her 97 million Instagram followers and 6 million Twitter followers, sold only 64,000 copies within eight months of publishing her book. The singer Justin Timberlake sold only 100,000 copies in the three years after he published his book.... See more
Elle Griffin • No One Buys Books
Harry Dry rules for copywriting:
1) A great sentence is a good sentence made shorter.
2) Writing great copy begins with having something to say in the first place.
3) Copy is like food. How it looks matters.
4) Since the look of copy matters so much, don't write copy in Google Docs. Write it in Figma (so you can write and design at the same time).
5) Ka
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two of the most important steps for reaching our desired outcome are first, how we map out and structure the opportunity space, and second, how we select which opportunities to pursue.
Teresa Torres • Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
Bezos, when asked where he gets the confidence to attempt to build companies of such massive scale, like Amazon and Blue Origin.
He responds:
“I think it’s generally human nature to overestimate risk and underestimate opportunity. And so I think entrepreneurs in general would be well-advised to try and bias against that. The risks are probably not a
... See more“The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.”
Superhuman
If you want to pull out the full richness of your being, the place to go is where it’s exciting but hard.