“Definitely, once a week,” is easier than “sometimes,” and “daily” is easier than once a week. A daily ritual keeps something front-of-mind, makes it almost automatic, ensures that whatever else happens, a small step gets made. Once the pattern is…
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More from Marc Andreessen’s brilliant interview on The Moment with Brian Koppelman. This time: how breaking into the network in order to get funding isn’t so much a symptom of cronyism as a test of fundamental attributes that a fundraiser…
This is a great cut-the-crap book about management and building a company. It’s most relevant to the the tech world, but there are plenty of gems here that are relevant to anyone – he’s especially good on shaping your culture…
Your desire to be generous to others is a great motivator to excellence: if you’re serious about ensuring that the externalities of your project are consistently positive, you’re going to need to be doubly good at what you do. You…
We eat elephants of different shapes and sizes. But most of the time, doing most of the things that matter, we’re eating elephants: learning a new skill growing a friendship running a household recovering building an organisation bringing up children…
Real marketing is built into what you do and why you do it. It’s part of your story, something that you do organically when your business is aligned with your mission and values. Kept promises, free returns, obsession with the…
Some things worth committing to: to service and impact for human-flourishing (vision, clarity and focus, outcomes more than processes, sustainability); to getting better every day (being a pro, showing up, learning, a path to making things better rather than shortcuts…
We all know about compound interest in the world of money. Save £100 a month for thirty years at one percent interest** and you’ll have a little under £42,000 by the end of that time (compared to £36,000 at zero-percent).…
Stan Lee was brilliant and prolific. We know him for Spiderman, the X-men, the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther… for being the driving force behind Marvel Comics, now a multi-billion dollar, multi-media juggernaut. It’s less well known that he…
Where’s the starting line? Sometimes we’re a few steps further down the track than the people we want to take with us: we’ve given it more thought, we’ve done it before. We want it more. We’re so keen to get…