It’s better to have focus, and be wrong, than to be wrong without focus. At least then you’ll know what’s not working.
A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
Tough Choices
Daniel Tenner at Swombat.com wrote a very good list of solid principles to consider when making tough decisions.
tl;dr
- Reject externally and internally dictated sets of choices and explore the landscape of choices on your own.
- Be aware of your own priorities in life, so that you can use them to guide your tough decisions.
- If every choice still feels like a mistake, err on the side of good, universal human values.
“It’s just business, it’s not personal” is a fallacy.
Don’t panic.
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Source: whatshipsarefor
knowing,
doing gap
People say you need a lot of passion for what you’re doing, and it’s totally true, and the reason is that it’s so hard, that if you don’t, any rational person would give up.
Nothing works better than just improving your product.
- Joel Spolsky
Source: startupquote
A formula for teen relationships.
A really nice explanation of Colin’s Theorem from my novel An Abundance of Katherines. The theorem really works (not because of anything I did but because it was created by noted mathematician and state representative Daniel Biss), and it’s surprisingly accurate, although of course imperfect.
One side note: The formula completely fails if you make the Dumper/Dumpee differential zero, which was a joke that Daniel and I put into the formula, our thought being that if you think hard enough, the dumper/dumpee differential is NEVER zero.
Source: thewhovianpotterhead
