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getting upset at your kids for making mistakes doesn't teach them to not make mistakes, it teaches them to hide their mistakes
Two conflicting perspectives I’m trying to reconcile:
Having a “north star” mission is critical.
Difference between success and failure on everything I've worked on has always been in persisting and getting unsexy details right.
from a founder:
“Momentum is a powerful thing
I genuinely think going from $10k to $200k MRR was way easier than going from 0 to $10K
Simply because back then we had slow progress and zero momentum”
What have I enjoyed the most over the last 3.5 years? What was it about those things that I enjoyed?
With an empty calendar, what am I drawn to? How do I want to spend my time?
Who have I learned the most from? Who do I want to learn from? What kind of games could we play together?
What are the rituals I need to develop to continue being a
You can’t just collect information. To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you also need a purpose. It can be achieving mastery of a domain, collecting raw material for a project, curating something for someone as an act of generosity, or collecting inspiration for an essay you’ve been wanting to write.
- show not what you think but how you think
“I kept my idea a secret from anyone who could not directly help to move it forward. That was my gut instinct at the time, but it’s now one of the best pieces of advice I have to give. Ideas are the most vulnerable at the moment you have them; that’s also the time people are most inclined to run around seeking validation from everyone they know. Di
... See more“Life is not like formula fiction. The villain has a heart, and the hero has great flaws.”
— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
both are true and sparks
Attend to your influences.
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I suppose this is the ur-message - to be more aware of what’s influencing you and how. Acknowledge just how much of what you think, feel and do is picked up from others, consciously and unconsciously, and try to become more conscious of more of them. Artists pay attention to this because they love their influences, while a“The division of the world into intrinsically opposed hordes and swarms attacks the very notion of shared humanity. I refuse to indulge in the despair that accepts the logic of the enemies of mankind."