Cal Newport Quote

Little Bets, and it was written by a former venture capitalist named Peter Sims.2 When Sims studied a variety of successful innovators, from Steve Jobs to Chris Rock to Frank Gehry, as well as innovative companies, such as Amazon and Pixar, he found a strategy common to all. Rather than believing they have to start with a big idea or plan out a whole project in advance, he writes, they make a methodical series of little bets about what might be a good direction, learning critical information from lots of little failures and from small but significant wins

Cal Newport

Little Bets, and it was written by a former venture capitalist named Peter Sims.2 When Sims studied a variety of successful innovators, from Steve Jobs to Chris Rock to Frank Gehry, as well as innovative companies, such as Amazon and Pixar, he found a strategy common to all. Rather than believing they have to start with a big idea or plan out a whole project in advance, he writes, they make a methodical series of little bets about what might be a good direction, learning critical information from lots of little failures and from small but significant wins

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About Cal Newport

Calvin C. Newport is an American nonfiction author and full time professor of computer science at Georgetown University.