Shivam Agarwal
@shivamm
Shivam Agarwal
Kevin Kelly says: “Don’t aim to be the best, be the only”.
underdo the competition
Failure is an event, not a person - Zig Ziglar
“ what does it seem like everyone else is mysteriously bad at?”
finding your thing
Everyone that we’ve admired has their “thing” and maybe this can be a great framework of thinking about your thing instead of asking what are you great at.
serendipity comes back in surprising ways
web.whatsapp.com • WhatsApp
goal is always to increase the base of serendipity
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
... See more“If in 10 minutes you cannot understand what’s going on, it means the person on the other end doesn’t understand what’s going on and there isn’t anything to understand.”
Brain Food: The Most Valuable Skill
your gut needs to be strong enough to take fast investment calls
Outliers act despite their feelings, not because of them.
Brain Food: The Most Valuable Skill
Today.
Scale is not the goal. Scale is a tool to make the concepts better and more powerful.”
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy