Patrick Prothe
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Patrick Prothe
Me is overrated
We is underratedPlanning is overrated
Planting is underratedAnswers are overrated
Questions are underratedVirality is overrated
Quality is underratedh/t Blas Moros
If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a goo
“I used to tell this story, about my theory of fucks. The theory goes like so: you are born with so many fucks to give. However many you’ve got is all there is; they are like eggs, that way. Some of us are born with quite a lot, some with less, but none of us knows how many we have. […]
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I still tell this story but I’ve changed it somewhat. Like mostA principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.
- Bill Bernbach
Can we re-frame this in terms of the customer’s problem?
What’s the soonest we could get this done?
What would you need to get this done tomorrow instead of next week?
What would we need to do to get twice as many customers? Ten times as many customers?
How does this relate to our goal? Is this the most important thing we can do for our goal?
What’s mos
- A beautiful poem by Mary Oliver. The last line is 🔥 When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death comes like the measle-pox; when death comes like an iceberg between the shoulder blades, I want to step through the... See more
Going on vacation offers us the chance to be unhappy somewhere else with better weather.
KOBE'S 1O RULES
GET BETTER EVERY SINGLE DAY
PROVE THEM WRONG
WORK ON YOUR WEAKNESSES
EXECUTE WHAT YOU PRACTICED
LEARN FROM GREATNESS
LEARN FROM WINS & LOSSES
PRACTICE MINDFULNESS
BE AMBITIOUS
BELIEVE IN YOUR TEAM
LEARN STORYTELLING
"Nostalgia is proof that you are living a life worth living. It is a privilege to yearn for your own memories"
To be aware means to be sensitive, alive to the things about one, to nature, to people, to colour, to trees, to the environment, to the social structure, the whole thing; to be aware outwardly of all that’s happening and to be aware of what is happening inside.
—Krishnamurti