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Lean is an operations strategy, a strategy to achieve an objective. In particular, the objective is to prioritize high flow efficiency over resource efficiency. Having said that, by eliminating, reducing, and managing variation, the aim is continually to increase both flow efficiency and resource efficiency.

This Is Lean

Niklas Modig and Pär Åhlström

The spectral signatures of the best companies I’ve invested in are remarkably similar. They usually have most of the following characteristics: compelling founders, a mission that attracts talented people into the startup’s orbit, a product so good that people spontaneously tell their friends about it, a rapidly growing market, a network effect and low marginal costs, the ability to grow fast, and a product that is either fundamentally new or 10x better than existing options.

How to Invest in Startups

blog.samaltman.com

Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, because solving problems is a constant work-in-progress—the solutions to today’s problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow’s problems, and so on. True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Mark Manson

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