Luck and Risk
“Luck and risk are both the reality that every outcome in life is guided by forces other than individual effort. They are so similar that you can’t believe in one without equally respecting the other. They both happen because the…
Strategy
Excessive planning is a fools game
The trouble with being so emotionally invested in planning for the future, though, is that while it may occasionally prevent a catastrophe, the rest of the time it tends to exacerbate the very anxiety it was supposed to allay. The…
Don’t sell the conference table
There’s a story in the consulting world of a group of partners who faced hard times. While two of the three partners kept pushing for marketing and more visibility, the third partner (let’s call him Señor Cut), repeatedly pushed for…
A Test for Truth
I read Andreessen Horowitz’s article Why AI Will Save the World, and this passage jumped out to me. Here Horowitz is talking about people who truly believe that AI will destroy humanity or the fabric of society: ‘My response is…
Entrepreneurs Should Capitalise On Their Strengths
If you’ve got entrepreneurial goals, this is the classic model that’s been drilled into our heads: The founder has a vision of how to change the world. He partners with other co-founders and hires people who can execute on his…
Ideal Action
What is the nature of our inner citadel? (Image credit: arajayempee) Sometimes when reading we try and find answers, a clue to the internal monologue that will push us to the ideal character or the ideal action that will get…
Everything You Do Is Marketing
I recently started a marketing internship with a London startup called TaskPandas. Obviously in the days leading up to the internship I boned up on all the articles I’d read on marketing: The Truth About Social Media 1,000 True Fans…