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- What are you being paid for? - The confidence that I have in my taste. And my ability to express what I feel, has proven helpful for artist. I feel the same applies to design most of the times. A so called good eye, taste, good ideas / direction goes a long way. https://t.co/ixNWQomsju

Joakim Jansson twitter.com

if you're a freemium business and you don't have one/few-click upgrades to team accounts when people hit feature walls, what could you possibly be doing in engineering that takes higher priority it's the highest possible intent, pls let me buy

sarah guo conviction

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“Take out a dollar bill and look at it,” he said. “Now pat yourself on your back because you are looking at a certificate of performance. If you did not rob or steal from anyone to obtain that dollar, if you neither defrauded anyone nor persuaded your government to seize it from a fellow citizen and give it to you, then you could only have obtained

Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

No, you are not a swindling rogue. In reality, you are a noble person providing for others in a marvelous environment that benevolently rewards you for your consideration.

Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

You have to bet on your taste.

turns out if you let yourself want what you want*, everything is amazing (* instead of supposed-tos, shoulds, “if I were a good person, I’d…”s, rules, everybody else’s opinion, what’s ‘sane’, what’s ‘reasonable’, what you have worked out intellectually, etc.)

ɐʇǝɯ-Lulie

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Also just want to tag on that your work is kind and generous. Money is just a clunky way to show appreciation for it. I don’t mean that in a glib way like “art is priceless” but what you’re doing isn’t just aiming for some aesthetic, you’re delivering honesty and kind intention through hilarity. It’s emotional labor and it’s valuable in a fundament

Let go of the 'shoulds.' Life is full of 'shoulds' - you should go to that event, you should answer that text, you should do the laundry, etc., but at the end of the day, they are 'cans' and you determine if and when you act.

Competence is how good you are when there is something to gain. Character is how good you are when there is nothing to gain. People will reward you for competence. But people will only love you for your character.

Mark Manson

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