Again, the event is the same: Someone messed up. But the evaluation and the outcome are different.
After you’ve distinguished between the things that are up to you and the things that aren’t (ta eph’hemin, ta ouk eph’hemin), and the break comes down to something you don’t control… you’ve got only o...
Act with fortitude and honor, he wrote to a distraught friend in serious financial and legal trouble of the man’s own making. If you cannot reasonably hope for a favorable extrication, do not plunge d...
According to Seneca, the Greek word euthymia is one we should think of often: it is the sense of our own path and how to stay on it without getting distracted by all the others that intersect it. In o...
A growth hacker doesn’t see marketing as something one does but rather as something one builds into the product itself. The product is then kick-started, shared, and optimized (with these steps repeat...
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10. What books would you recommend to an aspiring entrepreneur? Some quick favorites: The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! by Al Ries and Jack Trout The 48 Laws of Power...
¿Sabes cuál es la peor decisión que se puede tomar en marketing? Empezar a trabajar en un producto que no quiere nadie. Durante
You’re so busy thinking about the future, you don’t take any pride in the tasks you’re given right now. You just phone it all in, cash your paycheck, and dream of some higher station in life. Or you t...
That what befell them was not unsalvageable misfortune but the gift of education—
Of being a great marketer. Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of How do I get customers for my product? and answers with A/B tests, landing pa...
With success, particularly power, come some of the greatest and most dangerous delusions: entitlement, control, and paranoia. Hopefully you won’t find yourself so crazed that you start anthropomorphiz...
Whatever we face, we have a choice: Will we be blocked by obstacles, or will we advance through and over them?
Today, make sure you take a walk. And in the future, when you get stressed or overwhelmed, take a walk. When you have a tough problem to solve or a decision to make, take a walk. When you want to be c...
Today I escaped from the crush of circumstances, or better put, I threw them out, for the crush wasn’t from outside me but in my own assumptions. —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS,
To borrow from Aristotle again, what’s difficult is to apply the right amount of pressure, at the right time, in the right way, for the right period of time, in the right car, going in the right direc...
Life is really no different. Obstacles make us emotional, but the only way we’ll survive or overcome them is by keeping those emotions in check—if we can keep steady no matter what happens, no matter...
It is always revealing to see how a person responds to those situations where he’s told: There’s nothing you can do about it. This is the way of the world. Peter Thiel’s friend, the mathematician and...
It comes in many forms. Idly dreaming about the future. Plotting our revenge. Finding refuge in distraction. Refusing to consider that our choices are a reflection of our character. We’d rather do bas...
In its own way, the most harmful dragon we chase is the one that makes us think we can change things that are simply not ours to change.