When you think you just lack words, what you really lack are ideas. Ideas come in the form of frames. When the frames are there, the words come readily.
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Words and Ideas
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Measures and Metrics
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure…the more a metric is used, the more likely it is to corrupt the process it is intended to monitor.
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How To Value Things
It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it.
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Creating Value
Value is generated when the capital required to get a business to sustainability is meaningfully less than what the business is worth when sustainability is reached.
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Revolution Requires Collaboration
Revolutions are usually made by small networks of agitators rather than by the masses. If you want to launch a revolution, don’t ask yourself, ‘How many people support my ideas?’ Instead, ask yourself, ‘How many of my supporters are capable of effective collaboration?’
– Yuval Noah Harari
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Don’t Stare At The Winners
We should not stare too much at our big winners. We don’t learn that much from them. We should stare at our big mistakes, because we do learn a lot from them.
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Vagueness and Precision
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Observation
Most people think of art as learning to draw or some kind of self-expression. But what artists do is learn to see and the actual training is one of observation.