...The slope of the trajectory for your career is (unfairly) set in the first five years post-graduation. If you want the trajectory to be steep, you’ll need to burn a lot of fuel. The world is not yours for the taking, but for the trying. Try hard, really hard...
...We tend to assume that all items on a list are equally important, but usually just a few of them are more important than all the others put together...Fear plus urgency make for stupid, drastic decisions with unpredictable side effects...
...10Xers exercise productive paranoia, combined with empirical creativity and fanatic discipline, to create huge margins of safety. If you stay in the game long enough, good luck tends to return, but if you get knocked out, you’ll never have the chance to be lucky again. Luck favors the persistent, but you can persist only if you survive...
...To keep a team cohesive, you need both rock stars and superstars. Rock stars are solid as a rock. Think the Rock of Gibraltar, not Bruce Springsteen. The rock stars love their work. They have found their groove. They don’t want the next job if it will take them away from their craft. If you honor and reward the rock stars, they’ll become the people you most rely on. If you promote them into roles they don’t want or aren’t suited for, however, you’ll lose them—or, even worse, wind up firing them. Superstars, on the other hand, need to be challenged and given new opportunities to grow constantly...
...It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world...
...Most organizations are stuck in a rut. On one hand, they understand all the good things that will come with growth. On the other, they’re petrified that growth means change, and change means risk, and risk means death. Nobody wants to screw up and ruin a good thing, so most companies (and individuals) just keep trying to be perfect at the things they’ve always done...
...The name of the game is not to always be right, but to be right often enough...
...Green leafy vegetables are so good for you it’s nearly impossible to eat more than you need...
...The flywheel, when properly conceived and executed, creates both continuity and change. On the one hand, you need to stay with a flywheel long enough to get its full compounding effect. On the other hand, to keep the flywheel spinning, you need to continually renew, and improve each and every component...
...leaders are not responsible for the results, leaders are responsible for the people who are responsible for the results...
...To help you, as a designer of habit-forming technology, assess the morality behind how you manipulate users...
...If you took a break, would your business fall apart at the seams? Make a list of all these things, because these are the places where you need to start creating systems...
...If you listen to people tell their stories, most people’s lives are actually lived as a series of two-to-four-year seasons strung together...
...Measuring the wrong thing is often worse than measuring nothing, because you do get what you measure...
...The more constrained and repetitive a challenge, the more likely it will be automated, while great rewards will accrue to those who can take conceptual knowledge from one problem or domain and apply it in an entirely new one...
...Good strategic thinkers always have an advantage over people who don’t take the time to do the thinking in advance...
...The world is not a collection of things, it is a collection of events...
...True recovery requires nurturing a recovery mind-set—one that fully honors the body’s need to recuperate and senses when it’s time to chill...
...When you ask questions, just sit back and listen. Be interested, don't try to be interesting...
...Doing anything worthwhile takes forever. Ninety percent of what separates successful people and failed people is time, effort, and stamina...
