Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.
If you’re not willing to get your ‘worst one ever’ out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?
As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love.
My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else’s.
Marketing yourself to a new person often involves being charismatic, clever and quick-but most jobs and most relationships are about being consistent, persistent and brave.
The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable ways. That’s one reason why the web is so fascinating-it’s a collision between the analytic world of code and wet world of people.
The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don’t have much wiggle room here.
If you’re remarkable it’s likely that some people won’t like you.
At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.
Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn’t find the guts to do.
Don’t save the canary. Fix the coal mine.
All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.
Seeing, despite the name, isn’t merely visual.
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
I’ve found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.
I feel like I’m treating people as I’d like to be treated.
Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn’t going to scale anymore. You’ve got to find the people who care. Those people are worth all of your time.
Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.
The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.