Patrick Prothe
@patrickprothe
Patrick Prothe
I built and sold a business that allowed me to retire at age 44. It was called Data Storage, Inc., information, knowledge, and records management is my jam.
10 Years ago I gave a speech about the half life of knowledge to a bunch of MBA aspirants at a university business school. This is the Twitter synopsis.... See more
Scott Hambrickx.com- What’s surprising for many people, she says, is that marketing is actually highly tactical. There are frameworks and distinct steps founders can take to define what their company is doing, why it’s important, and why — above all the noise — people should listen to them. - How to Position Your Business - “You can't be everything to everyone, but... See more
First Round Capital • Positioning Your Startup is Vital — Here’s How to Nail It
The definition of hell is: Your last day on Earth, the person you became meets the person you could have become.” - Dan Sullivan
Feedback is a gift
Honest, thoughtful feedback is a gift. While it's fun to think about how other people should change their approach, it's empowering to know that you have control as a feedback recipient. You're 50% of a one-on-one feedback conversation, so if the conversation isn't going the way you hoped, think about what you could do... See more
Honest, thoughtful feedback is a gift. While it's fun to think about how other people should change their approach, it's empowering to know that you have control as a feedback recipient. You're 50% of a one-on-one feedback conversation, so if the conversation isn't going the way you hoped, think about what you could do... See more
Wes Kao • Wes Kao — Stop learning to give feedback. Learn to receive it.
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
AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein
Prompt: Act as an expert B2B copywriter and SDR. Help me write a cold outreach email that sparks curiosity, feels personal, and avoids sounding like a typical sales pitch. I’m selling [brief description of your product/service and its core benefit], targeting [specific audience], and solving [pain point]. I want the tone to be [enter tone], and if
... See moreDistinguish between what’s in your control and what isn’t. If it’s not in your control, put it out of your head. Trying to control outcomes makes you disappointed and resentful. Focus only on your thoughts and actions.