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The great journalist Nancy Dickerson once described John F. Kennedy in a way that makes me think he was high in openness: “To Jack, the cardinal sin was boredom; it was his biggest enemy, and he didn’t know how to handle it. When he was bored, a hood would come down over his eyes and his nervous system would start churning. You could do anything to him—steal his wallet, insult him, argue with him—but to bore him was unpardonable.”

How to Know a Person

David Brooks

Takeaway 8: Architecture is everything. This one can get very techy, but we've seen it play out over and over at our companies. Think hard about the ideal architecture for your product before you launch.

Amp It Up

Frank Slootman

We define a "job" as the progress that a person is trying to make a new way of categorizing customers or their problems. It's key to understanding why they make the choices they make. The choice in a particular circumstance. This definition of a job is not simply of the word “progress" is deliberate. It represents movement toward 1oal or aspiration. A job is always a process to make mredr a discrete event. A job is not necessarily just a “problem?s thouch one form the progress can take is the resolution of arises, though one form specific problem and the struggle it entails.

Competing Against Luck

Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, David S. Duncan

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