Patrick Prothe
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Patrick Prothe
I’m no longer content to ask, “What do you think about X?” Instead, I ask, “How did you come to believe X?”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
More and more it seems to me that about the best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing and then to do it well.
Leadership Quotes by Doris Kearns Goodwin
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." — William Arthur Ward
marketing is the strategy you use for getting your ideal target market to know you, like you and trust you enough to become a customer. All the stuff you usually associate with marketing are tactics.
Allan Dib • The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand Out From The Crowd (Lean Marketing Series)
“ If you write every cold email like it might change your life, one may. If you don't, none will.”
0 to $20M ARR in 5 years bootstrapped - how to achieve the impossible?
Until now, skills have been a major differentiator for humanity. However, in the age of AI, taste will become more important than skills as much of skill-based work and productivity is offloaded to compute. Taste seems more scarce these days, and increasingly differentiating in the age of AI. This assertion makes me think about the development of... See more
Scott Belsky • The Era of Abstraction & New Creative Tensions
surrender to the cringe
Take a moment to consider why you’ve heeded the call. What’s stopped you from doing the damn thing? A fear of being cringe? A fear of not being good enough?
When you first start out, life will be exactly how it was before you started doing the thing except now... See more
Take a moment to consider why you’ve heeded the call. What’s stopped you from doing the damn thing? A fear of being cringe? A fear of not being good enough?
It's all going to flicker out at some point with everything else.
When you first start out, life will be exactly how it was before you started doing the thing except now... See more
Cissy Hu • Year of doing the damn thing
