Rafael Beckel
@rafaelbeckel
Rafael Beckel
deep understanding of customers and their problems, their pains, and the jobs they need done to discover a repeatable roadmap of how they buy
Steve Blank • The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Because what I’ve learned from having the privilege of working in a place that asks for my best and helps me get there is how much it can unlock in a life. The benefits extend far beyond the skills required to get great work done. The really, really good stuff comes from looking back on something you created and thinking, “I had no idea I could do ... See more
Brie Wolfson • What I Miss About Working at Stripe
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
John Stuart Mill once said: “Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.”
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists
No matter who you are, you need two kinds of friends in your life. The first kind is one you can call when something good happens, and you need someone who will be excited for you. Not a fake excitement veiling envy, but a real excitement. You need someone who will actually be more excited for you than he would be if it had happened to him. The sec
... See moreBen Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Media companies focused on things like creating great stories whereas technology companies focused on creating a better way of doing things.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
It is common for one party to a transaction to have better information than another party. In the parlance of economists, such a case is known as an information asymmetry. We accept as a verity of capitalism that someone (usually an expert) knows more than someone else (usually a consumer). But information asymmetries everywhere have in fact been g
... See moreStephen J. Dubner • Freakonomics
It's exactly 5 years since I uploaded this video. I remember after the first week I was really excited because it had reached about eight thousand views. Then: people happened. People all over the world, each having that sweet, private moment of discovery, and then telling everyone they knew, on their social media and blogs. A few weeks later, cele... See more
Jon Gomm - Passionflower
Jon Gomm (8 years ago) about his Passionflower song. The song is 13 years old now.