A batch of the best highlights from what Nathan's read, .
Rule of thumb: If you aren’t finding consistent problems and goals, you don’t have a specific enough customer segment.
The Mom Test
Rob Fitzpatrick
I had forgotten that I wasn’t in a bloody mine. I wasn’t being paid for the hours I kept. Miners rarely get rich. They merely build a legend if they are strong enough or unlucky enough to waste their life in an unhealthy and poisonous environment.
How to Get Rich
Felix Dennis
Studying is the child’s task. A parent’s handling of that by commanding the child to study is, in effect, an act of intruding on another person’s task. One is unlikely to avert a collision in this way. We need to think with the perspective of “Whose task is this?” and continually separate one’s own tasks from other people’s tasks.