The Entrepreneur As Predator
I stumbled across a fascinating article at Malcolm Gladwell’s blog called The Sure Thing in which Gladwell parses a few successful entrepreneurs looking for the pattern. Here’s a few passages.
Moshe Feldenkrais Quote
“If you know what you’re doing, you can do what you want.”
~ Moshe Feldenkrais
TED Talk: How Great Leaders Inspire… hint “why?”
This is an interesting presentation… feels a little too ethereal in some parts, but the main point I think stands:
If your business will be successful with the masses, it must be successful with the early adopters… In order to be successful with the early adopters, you must sell them the why not the what
I also like his little concentric circle thingy…
Simon Sinek on early adopters
If your business will be successful with the masses, it must be successful with the early adopters… In order to be successful with the early adopters, you must sell them the why not the what
Habit Fields: interesting article on setting up spaces
Every object emits a habit field.” Jack Cheng
Seth Godin On Shipping
“What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do is ship.”
All you need is 1000 true fans
A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author – in other words, anyone producing works of art – needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living.” ~ Kevin Kelly
An unbelievably touching letter: Richard to his dead wife
My friend @jaethan turned me onto this… a letter that Richard Feynman wrote to his wife Arline who had been dead two years at the time of the writing. It was written in 1946.
It is a bludgeon and plume of hearty life, and will affect you deeply… especially if you are a husband… living in a world of distracting gadgets and careers and ideas. Read it where it was originally posted, or I’ve reprinted it below.
Clay Shirky’s insightful article on old media business, and new.
Some video still has to be complex to be valuable, but the logic of the old media ecoystem, where video had to be complex simply to be video, is broken."
~ Clay Shirky
“I believe you really are a good husband…”
I hate the way you talk about your married life, Harry,”said Basil Hallward, shaking his hand off, and strolling towards the door that led into the garden. “I believe that you are really a very good husband, but that you are thoroughly ashamed of your own virtues. You are an extraordinary fellow. You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray