Business Advice

Making work easier. This is the problem. So obsessed with getting to the answer, completing the project, producing a result which are all valid things, but not where the richness of the human experience lies.

Jerry Seinfeld's Speech At Duke's 2024 Commencement (Transcript)

“Fall in love with problems rather than solutions.”

-from ‘Non-Obvious Thinking’ by Rohit Barghava and Ben DuPont

Build the thing you wish existed.

—Source unknown

"The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you're passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated." https://t.co/KfFpouh7Dm

Emily

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Most times, the best way to create value is to double down on the domain-specific insights you’ve collected over your entire career.

—Nikita Bier

“‘Not your best ever’

In order to have a best ever, hearing this is part of the deal.

Each thing is not going to top everything that came before it. Progress is rarely smooth.”

-Seth Godin

"You are paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of the problems you solve."

~ Elon Musk

My remix: “The amount of money you make is in direct proportion to the size of the problem you solve.”

File this under “people I don’t like but who have said things that feel useful.”

You don’t want to be in the selling business. You want to be in the reorder business

- John Paul DeJoria