Muhammad Ibrahim
@sayyaf
Muhammad Ibrahim
Are you actually doing all these customer discovery calls because you believe it’s the fastest way to check your assumptions about the market ( a la “bias for action”), or are you really just avoiding the harder but more important step of building out your product?
Dr. Gena Gorlin • Vision or delusion? (Part 1)
If you have an idea and you’re learning to build it, this is perfectionism holding you back.
Getting really great is a waste of time.
Nat Eliason • How to Get Insanely Rich in the Creator Economy How to Get Insanely Rich in the Creator Economy
Sharp. But has some truth in it.
We can ditch our managers, offices, or professions, but any horizontal leap will only land us on another treadmill. Resignation does not liberate us from the rat race. The ultimate escape—transcendence—is vertical, not horizontal. Otherwise, our individuality will be used for anything but our own good.
Sherry Ning • Transcending the Rat Race
The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine - First Draft | Books in Progress
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Focus on discovery
When you can’t be everywhere, optimise for discovery — you want to be the brand people talk about in the group chat, bring up at dinner or the one friends say is doing interesting things. Oversaturated and everywhere feels tired and a bit desperate. Small, thoughtful and considered feels fresh and cool. People share brands that... See more
When you can’t be everywhere, optimise for discovery — you want to be the brand people talk about in the group chat, bring up at dinner or the one friends say is doing interesting things. Oversaturated and everywhere feels tired and a bit desperate. Small, thoughtful and considered feels fresh and cool. People share brands that... See more
holly chapman • part I: discovery-led brand growth
Talk-ability
Beware of shadow careers . This idea comes from Steven Pressfield: “Sometimes, when we’re terrified of embracing our true calling, we’ll pursue a shadow calling instead. The shadow career is a metaphor for our real career. Its shape is similar, its contours feel tantalizingly the same. But a shadow career entails no real risk. If we fail at a... See more
Nat Eliason • 40 Lessons From 30 Years
One of my biggest problems is the fact that I don’t really know my calling. I wanna do a lot of things. I’m interested in so many things. But I can’t identify this thing that my life should wrap around. Also, I’m not that kind of guy who does a lot of things at the same time. It’s a serious dilemma.
f the history was search, the future is find – because finding what you want is increasingly hard. The needle in the haystack problem. Those who can help us find the best stuff, and connect us to the people we’ll most like (intellectually, romantically, artistically, demographically, and on and on), and steer us to the things we didn’t know we’d... See more
Brian Newman • | Sub Genre
People like us do things like this.