How To Create Your Own Productivity System
“Productivity is about understanding what you really want to do, then building systems to make it work for you. The goal isn’t Inbox Zero. (Who gives a shit?) Y...
“Productivity is about understanding what you really want to do, then building systems to make it work for you. The goal isn’t Inbox Zero. (Who gives a shit?) Y...
“Very few leaders think this way. They rely on themselves to be intellectually sharp on bad diets. They go into fundraising pitches hobbled by self-doubt and an...
“Don’t be a dick — overdeliver and then people will want you around.”
“Side projects work best when they live at the interaction of ‘Things you enjoy’ and ‘Things that help you practice a marketable skill.’”
“The best networkers are givers. What the system does is force you to be a giver, and to do so in an extremely consistent way.”
“The pressure to do things quickly or have success happen right away is ingrained in our culture of instant-gratification, but really your real life is so long....
“How you do anything, is how you do everything. A good leader sets a vision, determines what needs to be done to achieve that vision, and executes until the end...
“By using a title without still doing the work, you fool yourself into thinking future success is assured. (‘This is who I am!’) That premature sense of satisfa...
“Ask someone if they like a product. Then ask them if they like it at a price point, say $20. The whole conversation changes.”
“Leadership is for other people, it seems. Leadership is for someone who has unusual amounts of courage, insight or perhaps arrogance. Except that’s not true. T...