For me, the most profound part of the experience was the realization that your survival and recovery have a lot to do with the quality of participation from your side.
For me, the most profound part of the experience was the realization that your survival and recovery have a lot to do with the quality of participation from your side.
Reality is often far more nuanced and far less concerned about our needs.
Nothing feels real until you are forced to start making hard decisions.
, I totally get why they are not going to have a special program just for me and my cyborg friends.
It has been said that urgent things are often the reason that important things don’t get done.
People know the garbage needs to be taken out. You can’t realistically avoid it. It is a job to be done and most of us just do it. But if a product magically appeared to make that job go away everyone would buy it.
Hasn't it always been pretty hard ... and wasn't that part of winning?
Even if your mission statement is close to your heart and crafted like a fine haiku, it can still fail to be strategically useful, or worse hold you back.
Sometimes you realize you are not ready to diagnose a situation; at least not in a way you really believe - so there is no point trying to push for a change
It’s critical to inject an opinion into everything - even it’s it’s simply to ensure people around you fight you to make it better.
There will be things you can control and things you can’t. Being calm about the things beyond your control and clear about the things within your control - and not confusing the two - is pretty important.
“When a company starts to lose its major battles, truth is usually the first casualty”.
Ben Horowitz - the hard thing about hard things
Keeping your eyes fixed on the horizon while your ship is running into rocks and being attacked by sea monsters and pirates may sound heroic, but usually it’s just plane insane.
If you like being a hammer, then everything is in danger a being a nail to you ... it happens even to the most principled of us hammers.