Philipp Rimmler

“When I got by myself I found myself and realized/if I was a child in these times, I wouldn’t want to follow in the steps of these guys”

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the guest list (lunch is for people who might stress you out; dinner is for those who delight you)

He believes that if you say it often enough and insistently enough it will come—a glorious revenge.

There's some logic to this: the most profitable partner for a given firm might be someone who's 85th-percentile good at what the firm does and 99th-percentile good at strategy, schmoozing, taking risks, not losing one's mind when some of those risks inevitably turn out badly, etc.

It’s typically uttered when someone doesn’t like following a set way of doing things — when a process is mindlessly followed and someone is trying to introduce something new: a new technology, new process, or new way of thinking.

“We’ve always done it that way” is the business equivalent of a parent uttering “Because I said so.”

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Context, in other words, can be derived from details.

Here, then, are the four questions of the tetrad. Don’t feel you have to ask them in any particular order.

What does _______ enhance?

What does it make obsolete?

What does it retrieve?

And, when pushed to an extreme, what does it reverse or flip into?