Muse

February 29th, 2012 4:25pm

The post-industrial revolution is here. Do you care enough to teach kids to take advantage of it? - #stopstealingdreams

http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/docs/StopStealingDreamsSCREEN.pdf

February 29th, 2012 1:44pm

"evaluate startups to join as if you were a VC investor- meet w/ 10 & join the one you'd invest in" - @fredwilson #HBSLTV"

February 29th, 2012 1:43pm

"If your goal is to become a CEO, train as a Prod Mgr. If you want to be a VC, do biz dev." - @fredwilson to #HBSLTV students"

February 27th, 2012 3:45pm

Entrepreneur Designers: When strangers become humans

Entrepreneur Designers: When strangers become humans

February 25th, 2012 3:38pm

"What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end."

February 23rd, 2012 7:58pm

"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it."

- Albert Schwitzer

February 22nd, 2012 3:11pm

vimeo:

To Do List by Yaniv Fridman

…and if it doesn’t work, start over!

February 20th, 2012 1:23pm

February 19th, 2012 5:48pm

"The great entrepreneurs I know work incredibly hard at creating environments that are motivating. They don’t pound away at the specific task of “motivating people”, rather they pay attention to creating context, removing barriers, being supportive, putting the right people in the room, and leading by doing. All of these things create a context in which people are motivated."

- Brad Feld

February 17th, 2012 2:17am

Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain. Every man is broken into twenty-four-hour fractions, and then again within those twenty-four hours. It's a daily pantomime, one man yielding control to the next: a backstage crowded with old hacks clamoring for their turn in the spotlight. Every week, every day. The angry man hands the baton over to the sulking man, and in turn to the sex addict, the introvert, the conversationalist. Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

This is the tragedy of life. Because for a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. Moments of clarity, insight, whatever you want to call them. The clouds part, the planets get in a neat little line, and everything becomes obvious. I should quit smoking, maybe, or here's how I could make a fast million, or such and such is the key to eternal happiness. That's the miserable truth. For a few moments, the secrets of the universe are opened to us. Life is a cheap parlor trick.

But then the genius, the savant, has to hand over the controls to the next guy down the pike, most likely the guy who just wants to eat potato chips, and insight and brilliance and salvation are all entrusted to a moron or a hedonist or a narcoleptic.

The only way out of this mess, of course, is to take steps to ensure that you control the idiots that you become. To take your chain gang, hand in hand, and lead them. The best way to do this is with a list.

It's like a letter you write to yourself. A master plan, drafted by the guy who can see the light, made with steps simple enough for the rest of the idiots to understand. Follow steps one through one hundred. Repeat as necessary.

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February 17th, 2012 2:15am

February 15th, 2012 3:48pm

February 14th, 2012 9:55pm

creative destruction

February 13th, 2012 2:21pm

"It is not, as it turns out, necessary to be a micromanaging psychopath with narcissistic personality disorder (or even to pretend to be one) if you just hire smart people and give them real authority. The saddest thing about the Steve Jobs hagiography is all the young “incubator twerps” strutting around Mountain View deliberately cultivating their worst personality traits because they imagine that’s what made Steve Jobs a design genius. Cum hoc ergo propter hoc, young twerp. Maybe try wearing a black turtleneck too."

-J.Spolsky

February 11th, 2012 7:48pm

Robert Irwin

February 11th, 2012 7:45pm

"At times of change, the leaners are the ones who will inherit the world, while the knowers will be beautifully prepared for a world which no longer exists"

-A.Smith

February 11th, 2012 7:11pm

"like a bicycle for our minds…"

February 10th, 2012 12:16am

Bring it

February 7th, 2012 3:29pm

But because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs! So people pretend there is drama where there is none.

February 5th, 2012 2:48am

"I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

-MJ