Elon Musk: "the best part is no part" Missy Robbins (Lilia restaurant): "the best ingredient is the one not on the plate" Coco Chanel: “Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.”

Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel "I've already grown a goiter from this torture... my stomach's squashed under my chin...my haunches are grinding into my guts...my skin hangs loose below me, my spine's all knotted from folding over itself."

one way to interpret being micromanaged is that you aren't yet trusted to execute flawlessly. what can you to build trust with your stakeholders that you can?

I know a lot of people that don’t do work until they get paid. That’s reasonable! If you can stomach it for a little, I’ve found that doing work before you’re promised the dough can be very trust building and very lucrative.

not even the strongest brands can survive the wrong strategy I love this little takedown linkedin.com/pulse/nike-epi…

tech is in its better marketing required era and Krithika Muthukumar is the best of the best.

Half-baked idea: ambiance will become the new taste. Taste is something a creator/curator exerts. It’s fundamentally personal. Ambiance is the experience created for others. In the world of personalization that’s coming for us, those that can effectively (and tastefully!)

"we work on craft to discover the extent of our talent...we have to do the work, to find out what we might have to offer, and in what mode." georgesaunders.substack.com/p/office-hours…

my favorite thing about working on big new exciting project is that everything I read and learn seems to relate to it somehow

Favorite things about this episode: -continued obsession with Jack Welch's management tactics -why hasn't management meaningfully evolved in 50 years? makes me want to do better! -worst or unluckiest CEO in history? -Eeke de Milliano Tara Seshan and I "joke" about getting meatball tattoos

When you start a new job, you're usually assigned an "onboarding buddy". One of the most overlooked values of this person is a behavioral barometer. When the CEO says something, how serious are they? When a meeting has no agenda or action items, is that normal?

The main thing I learned from having a puppy is that there is goose 💩everywhere

this is one of my favorite San Francisco things and you should go. sanfranciscoparksalliance.org/calendar/sundo…

The Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone. We're also temporarily turning on free trials to let you check it out. Have fun!

one takeaway from studying multi-generational companies for Red Queen Podcast is how important succession planning is. really hard to keep a culture, a brand, a spirit, a team in tact after the founder or critical leader leaves

i never recognize any of these songs anymore and therefore i am old

the less you understand something, the more columns the spreadsheet has

proactively asking for feedback is *such* good signal for high performance

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I love the genz work content making fun of their millennial bosses. Genuinely well-observed.