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Founders are striving to do something more innovative, uncertain, and psychologically demanding than most of us ever try to do—many with potentially large impacts on the world—and yet their distinct psychological needs have gone largely unstudied and unaddressed. And despite the many headlines signaling a “mental health crisis in startups,” with se... See more

Gena Gorlin • The Psychological Needs of the Extremely Ambitious

All of these people had character. None of them thought they were special people, born with the right to win.

Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential

Source: Inc.com

Mark Fisher • Exiting the Vampire Castle

when I was earlier in my career I was searching for the answers or the way to do things - the binary - and I think anyone that's been doing this for a while learns that it's all nuanced. Silicon Valley has tended so far towards optimizing for graphs and metrics and if we can reel it back in a little bit at least as just one company I think that wil

Lenny Rachitsky • Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)

talent sets the floor, but character sets the ceiling.

Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

the meaning of great performance has changed. It used to be that you had to be good at being machinelike. Now, increasingly, you have to be good at being a person. Great performance requires us to be intensely human beings.

Geoff Colvin • Humans Are Underrated - Geoff Colvin

Work includes the tone of feedback, the laughs we share with coworkers, the anxiety we feel when we face challenging tasks, our commutes, the food choices in the cafeteria, the joy (or dread) when we are getting dressed in the morning. And any one of these facets of work can be improved.