As you become successful in your own field, your responsibilities may begin to change. Days become less and less about doing and more and more about making decisions. Such is the nature of leadership.
Are we doing things for the right reasons? Or do we act because we haven’t stopped to think? Or do we believe that we have to do something?
We cannot be humble except by enduring humiliations. How
Think of the cold sweat when you’re stressed about money,
How do you get, maintain, and multiply attention in a scalable and efficient way?
Whatever your current state is, it can be better
Twitter isn’t designed to help you get in and get out with the best information as quickly as possible—it’s supposed to suck you into either a contentious world of argument and debate or an echo chamb...
This is why we shouldn’t listen too closely to what other people say (or to what the voice in our head says, either). We’ll find ourselves erring on the side of accomplishing nothing. Be open. Questio...
There’s a saying in Latin: Vires acquirit eundo (We gather strength as we go). That’s how it works. That’s our motto.
The reality is that we’re all guilty of thinking we know it all, and we’d all learn more if we could set that attitude aside. As smart or successful as we may be, there is always someone who is smarte...
The question to ask, when you feel pride, then, is this: What am I missing right now that a more humble person might see? What am I avoiding, or running from, with my bluster, franticness, and embelli...
The most insidious part of the traditional marketing model is that big blowout launch mythology. Of course, equally seductive is the build it and they will come assumption that too many people associa...
The line attributed to the management guru Peter Drucker is that culture eats strategy. It’s a truism that applies as much to conspiracies as it does to businesses. It doesn’t matter how great your pl...
The end goal of every growth hacker is to build a self-perpetuating marketing machine that reaches millions by itself. —AARON GINN
Practice self control. Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them.
Philosophy calls for simple living, but not for penance—it’s quite possible to be simple without being crude.
Persist and resist. Persist in your efforts. Resist giving into distraction, discouragement, and disorder. - Epictetus
Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life,
Not many had trained themselves to see opportunity inside this obstacle,
No marketer is ever going to push something with the stink of reasonableness, complexity, or mixed emotions.