Rhys Algar

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"How to clarify a concept you can't articulate:

1. Change mediums. Draw it. Photograph it. Sing it.
2. Change levels. Explain what is one level up (bigger picture) or one level down (finer details).
3. Change fields. What would this concept look like in different fields?"

(James Clear newsletter)

Thinking better

Communication and Storytelling

YOUR STARTUP IS NOT YOUR HORCRUX A list of 40+ guidelines I've learned about being a founder, while serving as an (imperfect) 2-time founder & CEO, early-employee-COO, advisor, and investor. CURATE YOUR TRIBE “Founder-friendly” often means “we’ll do whatever it takes to win a deal, including... See more

hari_raghavan x.com

Thought provoking

How to Finally Make Something

Scott Stevenson blog.scottstevenson.net

Business and Achievement

Momentum is Everything

Most founders implicitly realize that in order to get a startup off the ground you need to will it into existence and keep momentum high.

This is good for the startup but it’s also essential for the founder — when momentum is high most founders feel more optimistic about what they’re building, which is obvious to anyone they’re... See more

Superhuman

Leadership and Business

björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw

Thought provoking and Communication

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” ~ Zig Ziglar.

Thought provoking and Business

This quote from Tony Hsieh contains so much truth: “Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).”

Esther Crawford x.com

Achievement

Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:

“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of

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