Samar S Kamat
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Samar S Kamat
Obstacles to fluent writing
- Any variation on: “I can't say that!”
- “What if people think I'm stupid?”
- “What if people think this is boring?”
- “What if people think I'm ignorant?”
- “What if people think I'm trying to be superior?”
- “What if this isn't good enough?”
- “What if sharing my ideas results in my being scooped?”
- “Is this part of my job?”
- The vague
How to use a personal website to enhance your ability to think and create?
"Running one mile has more in common with running a marathon than sitting at home.
Investing $100 has more in common with being a millionaire than being broke.
Writing one sentence has more in common with writing a book than never writing one.
It always feels small in the beginning and the big goals seem far away. It's easy to talk yourself out of the
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Finding your life's purpose by reframing envy as a constructive clue to uncover your true ambitions and desires.
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Because unless you're a very rare person, you will have to assemble a vision of your future. It's not going to come ready-made and there won't be a voice from the sky going, you are an accountant or you are a downhill skier. It's going to be something you have to assemble.
And you'll assemble it in bits. you'll have to recreate the original
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Discussing the diminishing returns of virality and the strategic pivot towards building long-term value with smaller, engaged audiences.
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And so we are certainly evaluating, like, what do we want from the work that we put out now? And what is the scale of the relationship with an audience that that work is going to have?
I actually believe that it will be very cool to spend the next three, five, maybe even 10 years engaging with much smaller audiences. It's going to take a lot of
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Discussing Frank Slootman's "Amp It Up" leadership philosophy of boosting performance by increasing intensity and eliminating slack.
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Considerable slack naturally exists in organizations to perform at much higher levels. I would argue what Frank is saying here could also be applied to individuals. The considerable slack naturally exists in individuals to perform at much higher levels.
Let me go back to this. The role of leadership is to convert that lingering potential into
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