Patrick Prothe
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Patrick Prothe
The Business of Aspiration: How Social, Cultural, and Environmental Capital Changes Brands
Ana Andjelic • 2 highlights
amazon.com
Human beings design irrigation systems that carry water billions of miles but cannot invent an ironing board that opens without sounding like a metal seizure.
Marie-Helene Bertino • Beautyland: A Novel
do i have good taste?
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“we don’t need strategy, we need to get things done”, shreyas doshi kept repeating this mantra until he got to twitter
twitter, 2014, didn’t really have a product strategy.
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taste is a factor in everything we do. do we have taste in our beliefs? these eventually bleed into everyday product-decision making
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i don’t have good taste
“Why focus on the process when the world is outcome driven? Don’t results matter?
Yes, results do matter. But if you optimize for the outcome, you win one time.
If you optimize for a process that leads to great outcomes, you can win again and again.”
Yes, results do matter. But if you optimize for the outcome, you win one time.
If you optimize for a process that leads to great outcomes, you can win again and again.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On the costs of habits, major life changes, and what money can't buy
slow working
business becomes a brand when it transcends its category of origin. It takes an existing core equity, or a particular philosophy, and it infuses that idea into everything it does, furthering its reputation or world view one product, service or line extension at a time.”
Meera Kothand • Uncover Your Difference
A little corner of the internet to find old and new print and outdoor ads + ONE thing each ad does well.
nobodyreadsads.com
data can be used as an accountability shield, deflecting responsibility for a judgment call. People are more comfortable making decisions based on hard data in part because they can fall back on that data if the decision turns out to be wrong.
Patty McCord • Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
To see what no human has seen before, to know what no human has known before, to create as no human has created before, it may be necessary to see as if through eyes that have never seen, know through a mind that has never thought, create with hands that have never been trained. This is beginner’s mind—one of the most difficult states of being to
... See moreRick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Slow down: Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves.