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Bonus Content:My co-founders are born savants at ignoring the incentive matrix (yes I run a company but I’m never gonna plug it here cause I’m digging the pseudonym vibes)! Their life long allergy to constructed bullshit, whether in school, companies, inter-personal relationships, or cultural norms, is uncompromising and I love them for it.
Ignoring the Reward Matrix
tryingtruly.substack.com
Most people in most companies are ammunition, meaning they will do what they're told and they will try to do it to the best of their abilities, but they won't actually drive from inception and conception and take an entire organization with them.Turns out that any organization can only really do as many projects as it has barrels. Those are the people that can come up with original ideas can rally the team around them, and can fix things that don't look like they are working as promisingly as you had hoped.
Startupy
beta.startupy.world
When we fill in the blanks, we sometimes make mountains out of molehills. It often happens that we snag on negative aspects of a stressor and turn something small and manageable into something enormous and overwhelming.
The Good Life
Robert J. Waldinger and Marc Schulz Ph.D
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