Patrick Prothe
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Patrick Prothe
I believe most people we spend time with should be “low maintenance, high intimacy
Andrew Ettinger • 30 more things I believe
What makes a decision great is not that it has a great outcome. A great decision is the result of a good process, and that process must include an attempt to accurately represent our own state of knowledge. That state of knowledge, in turn, is some variation of “I’m not sure.”
Annie Duke • Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Successful platforms do not just discover what consumers want — they produce the consumers and the forms of consumer desire that they need.
ROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.
Bruce Mau • BRUCE MAU'S MASSIVE CHANGE NETWORK
Slow working
“You have the whole history of all recorded music at your fingertips for no money, and that devalues music in general. It doesn’t properly express the work that goes into it, and it certainly doesn’t express how essential music is to the human experience.”
Ten Ways to Say No 1. Take a time-out. If you’re not sure how to say no, one of
Stephanie Palmer • Good in a Room
Data, on one end of the spectrum, is separable, objective, linear, mechanistic, and abundant. Wisdom, on the other end of the spectrum, is holistic, subjective, spiritual, conceptual, creative, and scarce. [...] Today we are drowning in a raging flood of new data and information and the raft of wisdom to which we desperately cling is breaking
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We are writers, and we never ask one another where we get our ideas; we know we don’t know.