Paul Sturrock

You can’t write a viral essay that says “it’s complicated and I’m not sure.” But this is the only path to truly novel insight.

There is a filmmaker that worked for Pixar that put this beautifully, and he used the metaphor of doing anything difficult, but for your high purposes of building a company. He says, "If you're sailing across the ocean and your goal is to avoid weather and waves, then why the hell are you sailing?" You have to embrace that sailing means that you... See more

“If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders.”

— Walt Whitman

The intrinsic founder thinks like a craftsperson; their business is a container for their practice – a vehicle for an ongoing journey of meaning and purpose which reflects their identity.

Cognitive bandwidth is the capacity to hold a complex problem clearly in mind, direct work intelligently, and stay oriented when the pace of execution is no longer the limiting factor.

every era of technological change doesn’t just change what we can do. It changes where we get stuck. And right now, most of us are not paying enough attention to where the new stuck actually is.

Not all thinking is equal.

Some minds are optimized for execution within defined systems.

Others are optimized for navigating systems that are still forming.