Yoshio Goto
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Yoshio Goto
Speed & Levers and Decision Making
Consistency between Shreyas Doshi's Radical Delegation Framework and Tao Te Ching:
Tao Te Ching, Verse 17
"When the Master governs, the people
are hardly aware that he exists.
Next best is a leader who is loved.
Next, one who is feared.
The worst is one who is despised.
If you don't trust the people,
you make them untrustworthy.
The Master doesn't talk, he acts.
When his work is done,
the people say, 'Amazing: we did it, all by ourselves!'"
—Lao Tzu
Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
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"I understand there's a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons and old movies. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit, that guy.”
— Anthony Bourdain
Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk book is out. It kicks off with the following quote:
"To anyone I've offended, I just want to say, I reinvented electric cars and I'm sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?"
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is noise before defeat.”
— Sun Tzu
On Children
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Remember, your children are not truly yours - they are life's gift, only passing through you.
"It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set."
—Josh Waitzkin
Mastery of basics, not secret techniques, makes legends.
Look at Roger Gracie's BJJ dominance—leverage and positioning. Jiro Ono's 3-star sushi hinges on rice and fish quality. Dieter Rams' design? 1... See more
move at the “speed of trust”
I really like the approach of Netflix of 10 years ago when it was still small. They hired mature people so they could get rid of processes. Indeed, they actually tried to de-process everything. As a result, things just happened. Non-event was often mentioned and expected in Netflix at that time. Case in point, active-active regions just happened in... See more