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Redemption. One love...Walk good. 28all. Eya. *PB, KW, JK, TH* The Warm-Up: “How to create a better future? Ask yourself these two questions: What am I not doing now that one day I’ll wish I had started earlier? What am I doing now that one day I’ll wish I had done less of?” ~@Thibaut The Core: “Don’t ask for advice before you get started, ask for feedback once you have.” ~Sahil Lavingia “My past has influenced my present, but it doesn’t have to dictate my future.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant “Some of the best things God will do in your life will not be on your schedule.” ~Pastor Steven Furtick “Knock: K is silent. Hour: H is silent. Numb: B is silent. Wrong: W is silent. Inflation: Fed is silent.” ~Douglas A. Boneparth “In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency.” ~Shane Parrish “Rent is your maximum monthly housing expense. A mortgage is your minimum monthly housing expense.” ~Brian Feroldi “A secret to life is letting every situation be what it is instead of what you think it should be, and then making the best of it.” ~Anonymous “If you want to build a company in the creator economy, reach out to your favorite creator(s) and figure out the best way to turn their social capital into financial capital.” ~Sahil Lavingia “Good decision makers understand a simple truth: you can’t make good decisions without good thinking and good thinking requires time to think. If you want to think better, schedule time to think.” ~Shane Parrish “People won’t have ‘faith in you’ until you’re already a success. This includes your family. And even then, if you aim higher, people will still doubt you. It is how it is. Ignore them, keep going. You know your vision, they don’t.” ~@lifemathmoney “Educate yourself. When a question about a certain topic pops up, google it. Watch movies and documentaries. When something sparks your interest, read about it. Read read read. Study, learn, stimulate your brain. Don’t just rely on the school system, educate that beautiful mind of yours.” ~Jules Marcoux “A great writer operates as an unimpeachable witness to one’s own experience; and one of the reasons that great writers are so rare...and their careers, in the main, so stormy...is that almost no one wishes to have his experience corroborated. I suppose that one of the reasons for this is that one’s actual experience cannot but assault one’s self-image, one’s aspirations, and one’s safety. We all attempt to live on the surface, where we assume we will be less lonely, whereas experience is of the depths and is dictated by what we really fear and hate and love as distinguished from what we think we ought to fear and hate and love.” ~James Baldwin “From time to time you may become restless, and the restlessness will not go away. At such times, just sit quietly, follow your breathing, smile a half-smile, and shine your awareness on the restlessness. Don’t judge it or try to destroy it, because this restlessness is you yourself. It is born, has some period of existence, and fades away, quite naturally. Don’t be in too big a hurry to find its source. Don’t try too hard to make it disappear. Just illuminate it. You will see that little by little it will change, merge, become connected with you, the observer. Any psychological state that you subject to this illumination will eventually soften and acquire the same nature as the observing mind.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh “Great management is critical to the long-term success of any large organization. Strong management is disciplined and rigorous. Facts, analysis, detail … facts, analysis, detail … repeat. You can never do enough, and it does not end. Complex activity requires hard work and no uneducated guesswork. Test, test, test and learn, learn, learn. And accept failure as a “normal” recurring outcome. Develop great models but understand they are not the answer – judgment has to be involved in matters related to human beings and extraordinary events. You need to have good decision-making processes. Force urgency and kill complacency. Know that there is competition everywhere, all the time. But even if you do all of this well, it is not enough.” ~Jamie Dimon Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Letter to Shareholders (4/7/21) “I think a lot of VCs will hear that and say ‘Sorry, but you’re gonna die. This is a winner-take-all market.’ But I just don’t buy that. I think the creator economy is absolutely massive. Gumroad is gonna be a great business, and so are Substack and Patreon. The other thing I like to say is that if there is a ‘winner,’ it’s not going to be purely about pricing or functionality. It’s going to be about creator consensus. I think a lot of creators will pick the platform that feels more aligned with them philosophically. So my long-term map of that is that over time, these services will all roughly have the same functionality just like Shopify and Squarespace will basically offer the same functionality, but depending on what you care about you’ll choose one or the other.” ~Sahil Lavingia in Exclusive interview: Why Sahil Lavingia is betting his company on the rise of the creator economy; The Business of Business by Danny Konstantinovic Last Set: “Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” ~Rumi Food for Thought: “Sometimes perceived (or not) company pressure to join causes us to shortcut our transition time. Don’t buy into it, and furthermore, be concerned if they chose you for the immediacy of your availability rather than what you offer to them as a contributor. Most ‘what ifs’ are only in your head… I always ask for more time when evaluating a job, especially if I know I’m going to accept it. The extra time allows for cooler minds to prevail, and also the opportunity for more information to present itself. Spend time talking to potential colleagues and your boss, as well as doing heavy research on the company and industry. Don’t let hype, money, or promises trick you. I often like to remind people of their expected lifespans. It’s a funny number that helps me think about the use of my finite time. Don’t you think it’s weird we feel anxious asking for 7 extra days to evaluate something we might end up spending 700 or more days on? What does it say about hiring managers or companies who are willing to so quickly replace you based on a semi-arbitrary time constraint? If you’re worth it people will wait but be respectful of the pressures they face.” ~Niket, A few thoughts on changing jobs Blog Post:
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