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I recently heard one of the more interesting insights about Silicon Valley I'd heard in a while. It explained something I’d wondered about for years. But I can't tell you what it was. There's too...

The best habit I made in 2024... I call it the “No Excuse Hour.” Sounds simple, but it changed everything. Here’s how it works and why you need it 1/ The “No Excuse Hour” is the first hour of my day.

If you find something that is true in more than one field, you’ve probably uncovered something particularly important.

The best time to stop a distraction is before it starts. The second best time is now.

You spend years trying to learn new stuff but then look back and realize that maybe like 10 big ideas…

Do "outline speedrunning": Recursively outline an MVP, speedrun filling it in, and only then go back and perfect. This is a ~10x speed up over the 'loading-bar' style (more on that below) Don't just read this article and move on. Go out and do this for the very next thing you make so y

003 | Explaining America's most boring sport to an alien

This is the final installment in the nine-part series. Full series: https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/animated-universe-in-verse Words by Richard Feynman (transcript…

Days, it turns out, are rather easily made. The time required varies, but trends closer to making the bed, or making a cup of tea, than to making Ravioli. (If you are crazy good-looking and smile at people who aren’t when you pass them on the street, it can

As a part of Patreon's H2 2019 planning cycle, I shared this presentation as the team was coming off a big price restructuring initiative, considering upcoming investments, and looking towards going public.

Yes, there are tons of resources but I'll try to offer some simple tips. 1. Sales is a lot like golf. You can make it so complicated as to be impossible or you can simply walk up and hit the ball. I've been leading and building sales orgs for almost 20 years and my advice is to walk up and hit the ball. 2. Sales is about people and it's about problem solving. It is not about solutions or technology or chemicals or lines of code or artichokes. It's about people and it's about solving problems. 3. People buy 4 things and 4 things only. Ever. Those 4 things are time, money, sex, and approval/peace of mind. If you try selling something other than those 4 things you will fail. 4. People buy aspirin always. They buy vitamins only occassionally and at unpredictable times. Sell aspirin. 5. I say in every talk I give: "all things being equal people buy from their friends. So make everything else equal then go make a lot of friends." 6. Being valuable and useful is all you ever need to do to sell things. Help people out. Send interesting posts. Write birthday cards. Record videos sharing your ideas for growing their business. Introduce people who would benefit from knowing each other then get out of the way, expecting nothing in return. Do this consistently and authentically and people will find ways to give you money. I promise. 7. No one cares about your quota, your payroll, your opex, your burn rate, etc. No one. They care about the problem you are solving for them. There is more than 100 trillion dollars in the global economy just waiting for you to breathe it in. Good luck.

Manifesto is a series on WePresent which invites activists and creatives with something to say to write 10 rules to live by, in order to help spread their message.

明明如此，你却封了这条路。因为我没有这等能耐，恐怕我会因为这份工作，变得更不堪。 17、我和各种人度过浪费时间的夜晚，我努力听他们说话，但就算再怎么努力，我也不在现场也不在其他地方，搞不好我这两个小时不是…

I went viral in Paris and got called cringe

3.9K votes, 286 comments. 5.4M subscribers in the coolguides community. Picture based reference guides for anything and everything. If it seems like…

And this is intentional…

26K votes, 4K comments. TIFU. More like more whole life really. Hi, I my name's John. I've been lurking for a while, but I've finally made an account…

This morning I got stuck in the slow lane behind an old man when I was walking down the sidewalk on my way to a Zoom meeting at my neighbourhood coffee shop. Rather than speeding up and hurrying past him, thoughts on my meeting, I did the opposite: slowed down

Learn how to stay in your own skin – especially when you are anxious, angry, or upset.

What I've learned about how to build and balance a newsletter or blog brand with a personal brand and whether it makes sense to have multiple brands.