More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.
Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average.
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don’t have to have it figured out perfectly the first time – you can adjust.
Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?
Are you copying others? People won’t pay extra for that. You won’t be followed for that.
Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.
You want it to be hard. If it’s hard, then that means others can’t do it easily and you can charge for that value.
Too often, we don’t give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks.
If you borrow money to make money, you’ve done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or buy something you want but don’t need, you’ve done something stupid. Stupid and short-sighted and ultimately life-changing for the worse...
The value we create is directly related to how much valuable information we can produce, how much trust we can earn, and how often we innovate.
Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.
Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.
Shame must be accepted to be effective.
The easier it is to quantify, the less it’s worth.
Be genuine. Be remarkable. Be worth connecting with.
The people that are doing work that matters aren’t doing work thats popular. They’re just doing work that changes some people.
It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.
Go do something interesting. Ask if you need help.
The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.