You get rewarded for unique knowledge, not for effort. Effort is required to create unique knowledge.

As an elder millennial who came of age when Google became a verb, I had difficulty grasping that ~40% of Gen Zers use TikTok for search. So I hosted a mini-focus group with Gen Zers to learn more. Here are 3 takeaways:

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"The reality is life is a single-player game. You’re born alone. You’re going to die alone. All of your interpretations are alone. All your memories are alone. You’re gone in three generations and nobody cares. Before you showed up, nobody cared. It’s all single-player." Naval

A hands-free telephone headset ad, 1993

corporate life

Well said. Have seen this psychology at a corporate.

Gen Z spends 214% more time with the medium than 13-34s did in 2014. nationalpublicmedia.com/insights/repor…

People will accept your unbelievable demands of them if you match them with even greater demands of yourself.

False: New year. New you. True: New actions. New you.

Business is not an avenue for self-actualization. At least, that should not be the initial motivation. It's about helping your clients achieve a result. Later in hindsight, you might grow as a person as an aftereffect.

Reminder to make “doing the thing” the goal, not “what you get” from doing the thing.

Enjoyed reading this article by Tommy Griffith What I took away--resist the urge to get complicated. Just simplify--with fun and actual anecdotes.

This hit me hard. The reason you are not working as hard as you could for your dream might be because you don't believe in yourself enough. Full interview with Ryan Pineda Ed Mylett : youtube.com/watch?v=92B1RU…

When I worked at Google, anytime someone emailed me a simple question I'd reply: "Hmm, let's set up a recurring bi-weekly about this, loop in some folks from legal, and put some OKRs around it." I was promoted 5 times in 7 years.

I miss Japan. Anyhow, as someone who was a professional translator for a few years, if I had written this card it would have been among the best work of my career. It is a work of art two sentences in length.

When everyone leaves a party just as you get there, then you realize it’s your house and you need to clean it all by morning because important people are coming by tomorrow. It’s 10 people’s worth of work. But it’s too late to call anyone and it has to get done tonight. And

Happy to hear that Stripe has enabled Adaptive Pricing and A/B Testing. These will come in handy.

Instantly tailor your checkout for South Korean customers—accept 20 local cards and wallets directly from your dashboard. 🇰🇷 Available for US businesses: docs.stripe.com/payments/local….

What are you afraid of losing, when nothing in the world belongs to you. - Marcus Aurelius