"If you work hard on your job you'll make a living; if you work hard on yourself you'll make a fortune" — income follows personal development.
Meeting a Mentor: How Earl Shoaff Changed Jim Rohn's Life · Jim Rohn International
A research org wins by concentrating compute on a few big bets and disbanding the rest — not by letting a bottom-up credit market allocate it.
Why Google failed to make GPT-3 + why Multimodal Agents are the path to AGI — with David Luan of Adept · Latent Space (swyx & Alessio)
Own a word in the prospect's mind by being first, finding an open position, or repositioning the competition
Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind · Al Ries and Jack Trout
Turn customers into your most powerful sales force by giving fans tools to spread your message
Flipping the Funnel · Seth Godin
Plot customer value against penetration to identify winner-take-all businesses
Bill Gurley — All Things Business and Investing (Invest Like the Best) · Bill Gurley
If nobody can disagree with your take, it is not worth sharing
Spiky Point of View · Wes Kao
In the age of the internet, become the world's expert in one narrow domain
Bill Gurley — All Things Business and Investing · Bill Gurley
Do things that don't scale to build the foundation for things that do
Bill Gurley — All Things Business and Investing · Bill Gurley
If each new user makes the product more valuable for all users, you win
Bill Gurley — All Things Business and Investing · Bill Gurley
Dominate a tiny market before expanding to conquer larger ones
Do Things That Don't Scale · Paul Graham
Empower fans to speak up
Flipping the Funnel - Seth Godin · Unknown
It is better to be first in the mind than it is to be better in the marketplace.
Positioning The Battle for Your Mind · Al Ries & Jack Trout
Own a word or concept in the prospect's mind to cut through the noise of an overcommunicated society.
Positioning The Battle for Your Mind · Al Ries & Jack Trout
Never let a single supplier control your destiny
Shoe Dog · Phil Knight
Build curation, reputation, and risk-sharing systems that make strangers trust each other
Platform Revolution · Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne & Sangeet Paul Choudary
Design your platform around a single high-value interaction between producers and consumers
Platform Revolution · Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne & Sangeet Paul Choudary
Build giving communities where helping one person means everyone benefits
Give and Take · Adam Grant
Trade short-term opportunity volume for long-term career leverage through exceptional output
Slow Productivity · Cal Newport
Raise your standards systematically to produce career-defining work
Slow Productivity · Cal Newport
Build a product whose value to each user grows as more users join, creating winner-take-all
7 Powers · Hamilton Helmer
A complete solution to a narrow problem that creates your next customer
$100M Leads · Alex Hormozi