If the wind is strong enough, then even a fat pig that is not suited to flying at all, can take off and fly in the sky.
This is true about startups. And this is true about people.
I continue to learn so much as I get further along in reading Ben Horowitz’s The hard thing about hard things.
Ben describes an interview with a candidate whom he was looking to hire for the role of head of Sales.
If your company is going bankrupt…
If you are going bankrupt…
If you are going to lose your job…
If you are going to get a job…
Ben Horowitz, in The hard thing about hard things, writes about a person from a client he was dealing with during his time as CEO of LoudCloud, who asked for a connecting flight with the longest layover possible when LoudCloud was booking that person’s travel. Curious as to why someone would choose…
I’ve finally come around to reading The hard thing about hard things by Ben Horowitz. As I read more books, I’ve been making a conscious effort to apply to my own life some of the things I learn from reading books.
When I look at how I spend my days, some of them are heavy on exploration and others are heavy on execution.
The execution days are very busy, often running up to ten or twelve hours worth of tasks and barely any time to spare to even look at my calendar to see what’s up…
When we sit down to meditate and close our eyes, we are trying to sit back and disengage from our thoughts. We intend to simply observe our thoughts as they come up out of nowhere and then fade into nothingness, never engaging with them.
We have two kinds of motivation for the things we do — intrinsic, and extrinsic.
When we are extrinsically motivated — for instance, because our friends or parents want us to do something — the probability of us achieving the goal or succeeding at pursuing something…
I was listening to a talk given by a Product Manager at Amazon on their development process and was impressed by the emphasis on visualizing the end. Although they call it ‘Start with the customer and work backwards’.
I consume a lot of information — through books, articles, podcasts, among other sources. It is always at the back of my mind as to whether I’m merely consuming something or inculcating it.
A good way to test whether we have actually understood something is to try and…