Matt O'Donnell

@modonnell

On a never-ending search for interesting things

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Easy to spot a yellow car when you are always thinking of a yellow car. Easy to spot opportunity when you are always thinking of opportunity. Easy to spot reasons to be mad when you are always thinking of being mad. You become what you constantly think about.... See more

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Anything that we playbook becomes more legible to AI.

So we must burn the playbooks .

This is the real Butlerian Jihad, not destroying the machines, but destroying the playbooks that would turn us into machines.

Packy McCormick • Burn the Playbooks

If there’s a new role that’s been poorly defined, which is par for the course in the startup world, providing clarification is the first step. “Once you define it, you’ll usually find that someone who’s in that role isn’t actually a fit for what the business needs,”

review.firstround.com • 6 Counterintuitive Rules for Being a Better Manager - Advice from Lambda School, Quip & Facebook

Choose wisely @theuniverse_calling 🪐

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All of my startup experience summed up: The right person with the precise right focus and completely unshackled is 10x as effective as 10 pretty smart people working hard in a vague general direction

Austen Allred x.com

Starting a company is awesome if you want to feel like a piece of shit one day and king of the universe next day and just keep alternating back and forth forever and ever

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Surprising fact: To create something truly great you have to repeat a small number of powerful words over and over again

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