Nathan Verghese
@nathan_verghese
Nathan Verghese
American nostalgia — The Capital City Diner (Albany, New York) https://t.co/5LGoBUPcJz
Cringe tolerance: The crucial ability for creators to overcome embarrassment and release imperfect work to achieve success.
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Cringe tolerance describes the psychological capacity to act, despite the certainty that others will judge your work as amateurish, naive, or embarrassing. It's the ability to post your first YouTube video knowing it will be awkward, to launch your website despite its obvious design flaws, to share your writing before it reaches professional
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Leadership accountability is driven by team buy-in and the leader's clarity of vision and defined success metrics.
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So I think about Nick Saban. It's probably every single one of those kids' dreams to play at the University of Alabama, right?
And so they are there to give everything they have and to learn everything they can and to be the best they can be.
And they know that this guy, as crazy and loud and wild as he is, he is the best there is to get them to
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The philosophy of building with authentic impact, as a parent and business owner, versus soulless, generic development.
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And so I love the phrase, things are better caught than taught.
And so I basically I want my girls to see and catch their dad being a hard worker, but not just being a hard worker, but like a dad who is building things and is creative.
And so in my work, at the end of the day, it just keeps me more focused on the most important things that are going
... See moreSo sometimes, it’s not about hoarding every moment as much as being able to value the experiences you’ve had. Because if you have one experience that is valuable that you could draw upon later on from the past week, that’s a whole lot better than mindlessly documenting everything you’ve ever done for the last week, right? And that’s going to be... See more
Becca Rashid • Can We Keep Time?
There is something deeply tragic about how love is spoken of today. Not love, really, desire. Lust dressed up in aesthetics, marketed as closeness. Infatuation that burns hot and fast, then vanishes with the first discomfort. We live in a time where the word “connection” is used so lightly, but experienced so rarely. Where the craving for bodies is... See more