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Today’s gonna be a good day…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *DK, JG, PB* The Warm-Up: “People buy wearables because they think they’ll change behavior. Wearables don’t change behavior. They measure them.” ~Erik Korem, PhD The Core: “Money doesn’t change the world, ideas do.” ~Naval Ravikant “Do you know what 50 cent did when he got hungry? 58. Don’t delete me.” ~Stephen A. Hart “One of the only true shortcuts in life is finding an expert and apprenticing under them.” ~James Clear “Judging others is good for a quick dopamine hit, but how long until you’re addicted?” ~Naval Ravikant “I trained 4 years to run 9 seconds…and people give up when they don’t see results in 2 months.” ~Usain Bolt “When working on a project, you can pick two of three: speed, quality, scope. When in doubt, reduce scope.” ~David Perell “You can get more done in one hour of smart work than eight hours of hard work. A lucky few can combine these.” ~@stripmallguy “In the long run, the ability to make others come to you is a weapon far more powerful than any tool of aggression.” ~Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power “Everyone wants something real until they meet someone whose real standards challenge them to be real consistent, real considerate & real committed.” ~Anonymous “I think about this quote a lot: ‘Those who feel they succeeded in finance write novels or talk mostly about art, culture, politics, or their hobbies; those who failed, no matter how rich, are still taking (or writing) only about finance & markets.’” ~@david_perell “It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.” ~Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way (from James Clear’s 3-2-1) “The sign of an evolved individual is that they are able to attract to themselves what they need and want without someone else having to be at a disadvantage because of that. They can get what they need and want out of the world without having to violate someone else’s self-determination or rights in order to do so.” ~Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) “Moses and Jesus, at birth, had to be hidden…Don’t despise being hidden. God’s protection often looks like rejection. I know the door you want to open may still be closed, but you don’t know what He’s protecting you from. If you can let God plant & hide you in this season, when it’s time to be fruitful, your roots will run deep. You won’t be easily shaken or moved by the wild seasons that come with your calling & assignment.” ~Chandler Moore “Craft is responsible for everything beautiful in the world because beautiful is precision and it’s decision. It’s attention. It’s sustained effort. It’s intent. It’s ambition. It’s follow through. It’s maintenance. It’s everything that we care about and strive to make better in the world. We’re all contributors or non-contributors to that idea. The absence of craft is everything ugly in the world. It’s indecision. It’s neglect. It’s shortcutting. It’s lack of intention. It’s aimlessness. It’s indecisiveness. It’s things falling apart. You choose beauty or you choose ugliness. You choose craft or you choose neglect.” ~Cole Cuchna Last Set: “The first half of Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography makes some things abundantly clear: He had no natural ability to play the guitar. In fact, after his first lessons, he quit, unable to play a note. He had no singing talent. Every group he was part of needed a lead singer, and it wasn’t him. And just about everyone dismissed him. Audiences walked out, his first agent simply stopped returning his calls and bandmates gave up and moved on. He didn’t even know how to drive a car. Not only wasn’t he dating in high school, he wasn’t even cruising around town, being a charismatic rock star. Talent is overrated. Skill is acquirable. Showing up is something almost every creative leader has in common. In business, in the arts, in society. Consistently shipping the work, despite the world’s reaction, despite the nascent nature of our skill, despite the doubts. And community is essential. The people you surround yourself with can reinforce your story, raise the bar and egg you on. After the fact, the community becomes an integral part of your story of success. But first, you have to commit to the journey.” ~Seth Godin, Born to run (things) Food for Thought: “I learned so much working for Jack [Welch], but the world changed very dramatically between the 1990s and the 2000s and beyond. I think that there is a role for generalists, but it’s harder to be successful in the world today, unless you’re deep domain, particularly technically. The best CEO I had working for me in GE was the guy that ran the aviation business. He was great at the technology, knew the people. He knew all the initiatives that the company was trying to drive, but he was just a really deep domain technical leader. And that was really what I was trying to groom and what I think is important today…If you look at Bezos, Amazon’s a conglomerate, but it’s a software company. Google is a conglomerate, but it’s an AI company. Walmart is huge, it’s a retailer. The companies that do well today are extremely deep. We had a ton of good people, but we were creating perfect managers for private equity. If you look at the basic GE toolkit that I grew up with, it was almost the perfect match for private equity, where you took a company, you had five years to turn it around. You didn’t have to make big bets on products and technology…I think to a certain extent, some of the people who left GE did best in private equity versus going to run other companies. But I think we live in a domain world. We live in a deep domain world.” ~Jeff Immelt: Leadership In A Crisis, The Knowledge Project #116 Food for Thought II: “Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way. The enjoyments of life (such was now my theory) are sufficient to make it a pleasant thing, when they are taken en passant, without being made a principal object. Once make them so, and they are immediately felt to be insufficient. They will not bear a scrutinizing examination. Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat, not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life. Let your self-consciousness, your scrutiny, your self-interrogation, exhaust themselves on that; and if otherwise fortunately circumstanced you will inhale happiness with the air you breathe, without dwelling on it or thinking about it, without either forestalling it in imagination, or putting it to flight by fatal questioning.” ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography :: We appreciate your readership. You can learn more about the MML here. 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