Have fun with your startup's marketing.
Make your customers laugh.
Help your customers learn something.
Share success stories often.
Do things that inspire customers.
Stand out from the crowd.
Be entertaining.
Because attention is easily bought.
But really hard to earn.
A busy life is not a symbol of status. It's a symptom of trying to do too much for too many people.
A full calendar brings a surplus of stress and a shortage of energy. Reflecting and relaxing should be top priorities.
Unscheduled time isn't wasted. It's invested in well-being.
Being in the office is a double-edged sword.
Data: when our colleagues sit nearby, we get more feedback. That boosts learning and retention among junior people—but reduces productivity for senior people.
We need time together and time apart. Hybrid is the best of both worlds.
“With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
Your work does not define your worth.
A career is what you do—it doesn’t have to reflect who you are. Making a job part of your identity is an option, not an obligation.
Your impact in the world doesn’t depend on how you make a living. It derives from how you live your values.
I don’t journal to “be productive.” I don’t do it to find great ideas, or to put down prose I can later publish. The pages aren’t intended for anyone but me.
Morning pages are, as author Julia Cameron puts it, “spiritual windshield wipers.” It’s the most cost-effective therapy I’ve ever found.
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Please don’t build a product no one wants.
Validate before you build.
Talk to a lot of potential customers.
Ask them to be paying pilot customer.
Ask them for brutal feedback.
Build the product with them.
Focus on solving one problem.
Doing this will save you so much pain.
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Sep 13-15 in SF Bay Area!
10,000 SaaS founders, execs and VCs!
500+ Braindates and Speakers!
Term Sheet!
Parties!
Workshops!
Roundtables!
Inclusion Brunch!
AMAs!
You gotta be there.
“Can you imagine yourself in 10 years if, instead of avoiding the things you know you should do, you actually did them every single day? That’s powerful.” Jordan Peterson #motivation#inspiration#mindset
The main reason people reject science isn't political ideology. It's a lack of critical thinking.
Data: across the political spectrum, more sophisticated thinkers were generally more accurate in evaluating evidence.
Teaching reasoning skills is a key to depolarization.