With the proviso that I’m not at all convinced by the premise that scaling fast and making billions of dollars are worthy ends in themselves,… Read More »Podcast recommendation: Starting Greatness, with Mike Maples Jr
Now we get to my favourite sneak question… What does perfect look like? I would like you to list, when your project is working perfectly,… Read More »Seth Godin on perfect vs “good enough”
If you’ve done the big picture, general preparation it doesn’t take much extra to make sure you show up on the front foot. Here are… Read More »Front foot (2): head in the game
It’s good to be on the front foot – to know where you’re going, to be moving things in the right direction, to be proactive,… Read More »Front foot (1)
Danny [Kahneman] was then helping the Israeli Air Force to train fighter pilots. He’d noticed that the instructors believed that, in teaching men to fly… Read More »When “normal” feels like winning (or losing) – Danny Kahneman on regression to the mean
More accessible Disruptive Innovations are NOT breakthrough technologies that make good products better; rather they are innovations that make products and services more accessible and… Read More »Which “better”?
In the Christmas story, the baby comes for everyone – from the highest of the high to the lowest of the low… with a bias… Read More »Shepherds and Kings
I feel that [responsibility to say something worth saying] all the time.…I won the lottery. I wasn’t born in 1880, and I wasn’t born building… Read More »Seth Godin on privilege and responsibility: “I won the lottery”
Here’s great mission statement from Airbnb. Our Mission: Create a world where anyone can belong anywhere It’s an audacious, incredibly rewarding mission that our increasingly… Read More »Mission statement example: Airbnb mission statement and values
This is from a blog post called “How to Be Successful“, which begins with the observation that (in the startup world) most people start off… Read More »Sam Altman on “compounding yourself”