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The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians.It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is.
Samuel Arbesman • ☞ The Messiness of Reality and Stories
the world is messy and full of exceptions to the rule
You can go out on the internet, and you can find your audience. And you can build a business, and create a product, and build wealth, and make people happy just uniquely expressing yourself through the internet.
Naval Ravikant • The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities
Cirque du Soleil succeeded because it realized that to win in the future, companies must stop competing with each other. The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition.
W. Chan Kim • Blue Ocean Strategy
WePresent | Marty Bell’s 10 tips for a more fulfilling (and fun) life
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Steve Jobs articulated this approach more gently in an interview with Terry Gross: “At Apple we hire people to tell us what to do, not the other way around
Kim Scott • Kim Scott's Radical Candor | The #1 Book For Better Bosses
The scalable creator and customer community platform
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If you want to see the future of B2B software, look at what Excel users are hacking together in spreadsheets today. Excel’s success has inspired the creation of software whose combined enterprise value dwarfs that of Excel alone.
Benjamin Rollert • Excel Never Dies
Existing Recurring Behavior vs. New Recurring Behavior (A+) One of the most compelling aspects of The Farmer’s Dog investment was that the service tapped into an existing recurring customer behavior. Pet parents purchase food on a recurring basis, and dogs eat the same food multiple times per day for their whole lives. Unlike humans, who feel the n... See more
Nikhil Basu Trivedi • The Farmer's Dog: A Consumer Subscription Case Study
To whom do you look for answers and leadership, both in thought and action? Is it your family’s rabbi? The president? More likely, it’s the Substack writer whose work you follow devoutly and share widely or the influencer offering personal and professional guidance.