Salvador Jiménez
@sjmz
Cave Canem
Salvador Jiménez
Creativity requires connecting the dots, and connecting the dots requires allowing time for my subconscious to consolidate my ideas and make associations. This means that, from time to time, I need to just stare out the window and do nothing.
This doesn’t feel productive, even though it is.
This doesn’t feel productive, even though it is.
Ozan Varol • You’re doing better than you think. Here’s why. - Ozan Varol
even a bee sipping nectar takes pleasure from the meal—and not only in the moment, but in the ongoing state we call happiness.
Brandon Keim • The New Science of Animal Minds
Can we re-frame this in terms of the customer’s problem?
What’s the soonest we could get this done?
What would you need to get this done tomorrow instead of next week?
What would we need to do to get twice as many customers? Ten times as many customers?
How does this relate to our goal? Is this the most important thing we can do for our goal?
What’s mos
Now that companies like Shopify have turned software into a commodity, what distinguishes you isn’t whether you can write code, but whether you have something to say and an audience to say it to.
Yiren Lu • Can Shopify Compete With Amazon Without Becoming Amazon? (Published 2020)
NOT A HOTEL: Your home in Japan
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“The thing you don’t want to say — that’s what you have to write,”