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A question that underlies this piece is whether you’re pursuing status or financial success when starting a company. Pursuing an unsexy business will give you very little status while building it. Whereas, sexy businesses pay handsomely in status. For many founders, the status compensation far outweighs the financial. This is a topic that I’d like to write about more in the future.
Software Ate All the Easy Shit
andrewrea.substack.com
When we are aspiring we must resist the impulse to reverse engineer success from other people’s stories. When we achieve our own, we must resist the desire to pretend that everything unfolded exactly as we’d planned. There was no grand narrative. You should remember—you were there when it happened.
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday
What works gets ignored; what fails gets attention.
Spend time more carefully than money – you only run out of time once.
Optimism is a performance-enhancing drug that’s both legal and free.
While experts predicted failure, Sam Walton opened discount stores in small towns. When critics said it was ‘too risky,’ FedEx launched overnight delivery.
While pessimists write reports, optimists write history.
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