Date: November 10, 2019
Categories: general
https://www.diffordsguide.com/encyclopedia/1183/cocktails/the-story-behind-bonds-vesper-martini
moderate giftedness – kurt vonnegut
Date: November 10, 2019
Categories: general
On moderate giftedness Tom Hart emailed me the other day, asking if I remembered a Kurt Vonnegut passage where he talks about how “we all are all dispirited because we feel like have to compete with the world’s best, not just fulfill a role (say artist, writer, storyteller) in our tribe or extended family.” I did, believe … Read More
how to be great
Date: November 10, 2019
Categories: general
https://blog.stephsmith.io/how-to-be-great/ The first step in becoming great is recognizing that you’re likely not already great. In fact, it comes from recognizing that there is no such thing as greatness at a specific instance in time. Greatness is instead a reflection of a period of effort, since greatness in a single instance can be reduced to … Read More
Lessons from Keith Rabois Essay 5: How to Become a Magnet for Talent and Assess Talent
Date: November 9, 2019
Categories: playbook
Talk about your startup publicly and loudly so people know what you are working on Crawl your personal network for your smartest friends, but after that you need to run a sales process on LinkedIn to get more candidates in the door. Look for potential not experience Running a candidate pipeline takes a lot of … Read More
How to write a good blog post – On my Om
Date: November 4, 2019
You start with the basic premise: respecting your reader’s time. Can they find the story somewhere else, and if yes, then WHY should they read you? What makes what you want to publish so special? Remember, readers have a million choices, to find information. They are better equipped than you. So why should they come … Read More
AoR (Areas of Responsibility)
Date: November 1, 2019
Categories: playbook
co-founder areas of responsibility from Main Street (Danilo)
How to Tell Your Story: A Simple Framework for Startups (Om Malik)
Date: October 30, 2019
How to Tell Your Story: A Simple Framework for Startups by Om Malik— Read on www.slideshare.net/mobile/ommalik/how-to-tell-your-story-a-simple-framework-for-startups-188319803
Friedman doctrine – Wikipedia
Date: October 30, 2019
Categories: general
The Friedman Doctrine, or Shareholder Theory, is a normative theory of business ethics advanced by economist Milton Friedman which holds that a firm’s main responsibility is to its shareholders.[1] This approach views shareholders as the economic engine of the organization and the only group to which the firm is socially responsible. As such, the goal … Read More
Date: October 22, 2019
Categories: general
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck
Memos – @sriramk
Date: October 22, 2019
Categories: playbook
I’m fascinated by interesting memos written for an internal audience – a company, a campaign or even for the President. Raw, not smoothened over for PR departments, they help shed light on how people really think inside institutions. https://sriramk.com/memos