Max Beauroyre

Quality, not quantity, should be the guiding principle in our creative work. There should be a minimum bar of craftsmanship for what we put out into the world. One that gives us a sense of pride.

We should measure success by the quality of our work, not by the number of tasks completed.

the thing that organized people was always narrative, and the story did not need to be verifiable. It just needed to be extraordinary enough that the person listening to it would risk something to orient around it. And we're back there now. That's how humanity has always functioned.

Nearly everyone who does great work has some episode of early solitary work. As the philosopher Bertrand Russell remarked, the development of gifted and creative individuals, such as Newton or Whitehead, seems to require a period in which there is little or no pressure for conformity, a time in which they can develop and pursue their interests no... See more

The internet created websites in the early 1990s, but Google didn't emerge as the dominant distribution mechanism until 1998—and didn't truly monetize until the 2000s. That's nearly a decade between the technology and the distribution.

Mobile apps launched with the iPhone in 2008. Everyone rushed to build apps, convinced the App Store would be the... See more

If you were magically given 10,000 hours to be amazing at something, what would it be? The more clarity you have on this response, the better off you’ll be.

Zooming out, Mutiny has made the shift from a broad lead pool to a precise list of named accounts:

• 1:many marketing targets around 7,500 total accounts


• 1:few marketing targets the top 2,500


• 1:1 targets the top 200 – these are who AE’s care about the most