Pritesh
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Collecting the dots.
Pritesh
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The best story wins. Not the best idea, or the right idea, or the most rational idea. Just whoever tells a story that catches people’s attention and gets them to nod their heads is the one who tends to be rewarded.
Zoho Campaigns
If you want to live an asymmetric life: Do hard things. Do your thing. Do it for decades. Write your story. ”
Graham Weaver • How to Live an Asymmetric Life
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
... See moreAlex Tan • #032 Peeling Back
On simplicity
Everything looks certain in hindsight, but at the time uncertainty ruled the day.
Collaborative Fund • A Message From the Past
In the physical world, great buildings are linked to their architect while those who had poured the concrete or installed the windows are soon forgotten. Berkshire has become a great company. Though I have long been in charge of the construction crew; Charlie should forever be credited with being the architect.
Warren Buffett • Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Shareholders Letter
Most buy something they just want to work. Configuration is a drag, not a desire. Setting something up brings them down. They just want their struggle out of the way, and choosing and buying the thing was the majority of the work they signed up for. The rest should just glide.
Defaults aren't just about nailing The Golden Path, it's also about... See more
Defaults aren't just about nailing The Golden Path, it's also about... See more
Jason Fried (jason@hey.com) • Software Defaults
Positive results—winning—count most. But until those results come through your door, a heavy dose of documentation relating to what you’ve done and what you’re doing, planning to do, and hoping to do may buy you just enough extra time to actually do it.
Seth Godin • Daily Review | Readwise
Robert Greene notes that the “Master” is observing not just “the moves of the pieces on the chessboard but the entire game, involving the psychologies of the players, their strategies in real time, their past experiences influencing the present, the comfort of the chairs they are sitting in, how their energies affect each other — in a word,... See more
grahamduncan.blog • The Playing Field - Graham Duncan Blog
Plus, most ambitious ideas seem wrong at first. If a new idea was obviously good, someone else would have already done it.