Quotes
“A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its wings.”
Charlie Wardle
"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" - Walt Whitman
“The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner.”
Naval
What I like most about deadlines is the whistling sound they make when the pass by.
An unfortunate fact of corporate life is that a subset of your colleagues who claim to have “strong opinions, weakly held” in reality demonstrate “strong opinions, aggressively defended, rarely reconsidered, but happily changed if that’s what the bosses want”.
"I asked him (Sam Evans) about why he'd stop making content. He'd been pretty prolific at this 40th floor penthouse apartment with a motorcycle in it, overlooking floor to ceiling glass. Maybe it was in New York or some big city like that. And he said, he'd found that the story he was putting out publicly was one that he'd begun to feel the need to
... See moreMost self-help stuff can be mulched into some version of “Calm the fuck down, keep moving, and have good goals“
There are two types of driven people.
Those who want to get it done. And those who want to get it right.
All people who want to get it right want to get it done.
Almost nobody who wants to get it done wants to get it right.