Reminding ourselves each day that we will die helps us treat our time as a gift. Someone on a deadline doesn’t indulge himself with attempts at the impossible, he doesn’t waste time complaining about...
Reminding ourselves each day that we will die helps us treat our time as a gift.
Respect the craft and make something beautiful.
Saban’s process is exclusively this—existing in the present, taking it one step at a time, not getting distracted by anything else. Not the other team, not the scoreboard or the crowd. The process is...
See things for what they are. Do what we can. Endure and bear what we must.
Self-control is a difficult thing, no question. Which is why a popular trick from dieting might be helpful. Some diets allow a cheat day—one day per week in which dieters can eat anything and everythi...
Seneca observes how often powerful people are slaves to their money, to their positions, to their mistresses, even—as was legal in Rome—to their slaves. No
Seneca put it best when he said, Life is long if you know how to use it. Sadly, most people don’t—they waste the life they’ve been given. Only when it is too late do they try to compensate for that wa...
Some companies like Airbnb and Instragram spend a long time trying new iterations until they achieve what growth hackers call Product Market Fit (PMF); others find it right away. The end goal is the s...
Someone recently published a book called Working On My Novel, filled with social media posts from writers who are clearly not working on their novels. Writing,
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. Ambition,
Successfully finding and scratching a niche requires asking and answering a question that very few creators seem to do: Who is this thing for? Instead, many creators want to be for everyone . . . and...
Take Evernote, a start-up that offers productivity and organization software, which made the companywide decision to delay spending even a penny on marketing for the first several years of its growth....
Take inventory for a second. What do you dislike? Whose name fills you with revulsion and rage? Now ask: Have these strong feelings really helped you accomplish anything? Take an even wider inventory....
The Obstacles That Lie Before Us There is an old Zen story about a king whose people had grown soft and entitled. Dissatisfied with this state of affairs, he hoped to teach them a lesson. His plan was...
The best strategic marketing decision you can make is to have a product or business fulfill a real, compelling need for a real and defined group of people—no matter how much tweaking and refining this...
The best way to avenge yourself is to not be like that. —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.6 How much better to heal than seek revenge from injury. Vengeance wastes a lot of time and exposes you to many...
The company’s most effective marketing tactic (besides making a great product) would never have been conceived or attempted by a pure marketing team. Instead, the engineers coded a set of tools that m...
The ego we see most commonly goes by a more casual definition: an unhealthy belief in our own importance. Arrogance. Self-centered ambition. That’s
The fundamental purpose of most people at Facebook working on data is to influence and alter people’s moods and behaviour. They are doing it all the time to make you like stories more, to click on mor...
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