Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
My combined mediocre skills are worth far more than the sum of the parts. If you think extraordinary talent and a maniacal pursuit of excellence are necessary for success, I say that’s just one approach, and probably the hardest. When it comes to skills, quantity often beats quality.
Scott Adams • How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
His life’s work is devoted to helping experts build better businesses.
David C. Baker • The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
Lenny Rachitsky • How Perplexity builds product
Max Levchin, my co-founder at PayPal, says that startups should make their early staff as personally similar as possible.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
- If you have one truly good idea in your life, that is more than enough.
- To improve your mind, read fiction. We spend the vast majority of our professional lives in pure knowledge-gathering mode; there are different, deeper truths hidden in stories.
- “Never quit” is terrible advice. Try lots of things, quit lots of things. Your time is not infinite.
Observations on People, the World, and Everything Else
people that you assemble. Every great idea, everything you create, your marketing, your products, your strategy - all of it will come from the minds of the people you hire.
Steven Bartlett • The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life
The trap of speed. Operating at high speed comes with a fairly predictable downside: deprioritizing long-range thinking and downplaying or ignoring a team’s potentially toxic dynamic. This sets the team on a destructive trajectory. The role of a leader is to find the right balance between getting stuff done and investing in people; between what you
... See moreJoshua Yellin • The Bonfire Moment: Bring Your Team Together to Solve the Hardest Problems Startups Face
the incremental leader enjoys and protects their cognitive capacity to create enduring solutions. They use their technical experience to help people solve their Layer 1 and 2 problems when needed because they have redesigned processes in support of that goal. This is beneficial because their intense attention is needed only on the novel portions of
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