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If your product requires advertising or salespeople to sell it, it’s not good enough: technology is primarily about product development, not distribution. Bubble-era advertising was obviously wasteful, so the only sustainable growth is viral growth
Zero to One_ Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel
he gave deposits for the use of all the olive-presses in Chios and Miletus, which he hired at a low price because no one bid against him. When the harvest time came, and many were wanted all at once and of a sudden, he let them out at any rate which he pleased, and made a quantity of money. Thus he showed the world that philosophers can easily be rich if they like, but that their ambition is of another sort."
Russell, Bertrand
A History Of Western Philosophy
Is My To Do List Done Yet?
Summary:
It's a daily review process combined with getting into the habit of making notes as you're doing the work, which i i think has a couple of benefits. Because our memories aren't very good at keeping track of what we really do. All of us ar involved in something, hopefully that we care about, that is important to us. Ah, it's just good practiceto be able to track how you're actually spending your time and energy, or investing your time andEnergy instead of just relying on your memory to do that.
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Tei it's a daily review process combined with getting into the habit of making notes as you're doing the work, which i i think has a couple of benefits. Ah, it's just good practiceto to track how you're actually spending your time and energy, or investing your time and energy, instead of just relying on your memory to do that. Because our memories aren't very good at keeping track of what we really do. I think there's there's another cognitive and em a benefit to doing this, which is all of us ar involved in something, hopefully that we care about, that's important to us.
#106 Josh Kaufman — Maximizing Our Locus of Control
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
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