This was a nice lesson, written by Yiren Wu, who runs a content marketing agency. “When you run an agency business, your clients have no problem giving you negative feedback directly.” | learn more
“High Agency is about finding a way to get what you want, without waiting for conditions to be perfect or otherwise blaming the circumstances. High Agency people either push through in the face of adverse conditions or manage to reverse […]
“I studied ways to be less awkward, and learned some interesting things that improve my relationships.” | learn more
“Far from being profoundly destructive, we humans have deep capacities for sharing resources with generosity and foresight.” | learn more
“You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. … Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. … In […]
“Last week entrepreneurs reminded me several times of one of my favorite adages: if you don’t ask, you don’t get. While it seems obvious, the reality is most people assume if something isn’t offered up or available, then you can’t […]
This is, “one person who owns the success or failure of a given initiative, project, or goal. They are the decision-maker or the one who is responsible to drive decisions. They are the single point of contact and the one […]
“Today, we are in a crisis. Silicon Valley’s best — our top operators, exited founders, and most powerful investors — are almost all on bad quests. Exiting your first startup only to enter venture capital and fight your peers for […]
“In October 2016, Richard Dewey and Victor Haghani (of LTCM infamy) published a study titled: Observed Betting Patterns on a Biased Coin … The study is a dazzling illustration of how poor our intuition is for proper bet sizing.” | learn more
Ben Horowitz explains the work required to overcome some obstacles won’t come from a silver bullet, but a lot of lead bullets. “Stop looking for the silver bullet.” | learn more