CEO diary entry: control, accountability, whiplash & anxiety
Confession — I get inferiority complex from all these "How X builds product" posts by @lennysan. Everybody appear to have their shit together, all organized and confident. My experience has been very different. If you want to do something new and hard, it's a constant doubt,… Show more
This effectual approach contrasts with the causal approach, which focuses on the lack of resources, views entrepreneurship as a zero-sum game, makes decisions based on hypotheticals and accounting, sees out-of-the-box events as problems, and attempts to predict and control the future at all costs.
The key takeaway is not to strive for perfection but
... See moreThis is an incredible insight by Jason Fried, on looking back less:
I have a theory.
One of the reasons companies have a hard time moving forward is because they've tangled themselves in the near past. Eyes aimed backwards rather than ahead, staring at the dark, feet in their own concrete.
They've trapped themselves looking for certainty where there i
For the past decade, our idolatry of startups and innovation has meant the focus has been: What can we disrupt? How fast can we grow? How big can we get? How much can we raise?
Founders are taught to possess enough faith that they can build something very big very fast. This creates a pressure cooker of responsibility that distorts reality to the p... See more
Founders are taught to possess enough faith that they can build something very big very fast. This creates a pressure cooker of responsibility that distorts reality to the p... See more