Moi Jamri
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Moi Jamri
“Invert, always invert: Turn a situation or problem upside down. Look at it backwards. What happens if all our plans go wrong? Where don’t we want to go, and how do you get there?
"Instead of looking for success, make a list of how to fail instead–through sloth, envy, resentment, self-pity, entitlement, all the mental habits of self-defeat. Avoid... See more
"Instead of looking for success, make a list of how to fail instead–through sloth, envy, resentment, self-pity, entitlement, all the mental habits of self-defeat. Avoid... See more
Inversion
Ad Hominem
(Attacking the person): This fallacy occurs when, instead of addressing someone's argument or position, you irrelevantly attack the person or some aspect of the person who is making the argument. The fallacious attack can also be direct to membership in a group or institution.
(Attacking the person): This fallacy occurs when, instead of addressing someone's argument or position, you irrelevantly attack the person or some aspect of the person who is making the argument. The fallacious attack can also be direct to membership in a group or institution.
Ad Hominem
If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they’ll screw it up." he says. "But if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they’ll make it work."
The Profile Dossier: Ed Catmull, Pixar's Creative Genius
On the value of teams
I think another driver of this sentiment and behavior is that chasing scale strips you of some humanity. It puts your head too high up in the clouds. It removes you from what happens in the real world with real people. Pursuing something that can’t scale does the exact opposite: it grounds you. It’s a comforting and healing next act.
Anu Atluru • Pursuits That Can’t Scale
“I always knew from when I was a little boy that the opportunities that were important that were going to come to me were few and that the trick was to prepare myself for seizing the few that came. This is not the attitude that they have at a big investment council. They think that if they study a million things, they can know a million things.” —
... See moreUgliness is not the absence of beauty. It’s not in opposition to it. Ugliness is its own, wonderful thing.
5 Things I’ve Learned From Being 'Ugly'
That one is the fact that as technology and information play a bigger role in business and our lives, labor becomes less necessary
Howard Marks • Howard Marks Memo - The Winds of Change
“We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.”