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Exploiting Unrecognized Simplicity — Andy Benoit
“Most geniuses—especially those who lead others—prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognized simplicities.” ― Andy Benoit (Touchdown 2006, Ballantine) | #Simplexity #Simplicity #Systems #Leadership
“When you work toward your goal, you’re taking steps to success.” — Giannis Antetokounmpo
A growth mindset reframes failure… "When you work toward your goal, you're taking steps to success." pic.twitter.com/S6LFQoHw5y — Brian Solis (@briansolis) April 28, 2023 “When you work toward your goal, you’re taking steps to success.” — Giannis Antetokounmpo
“Dinners are for Old Friends, but Lunches are for New Ones.” — Glyph Lefkowitz
“Dinners are for Old Friends, but Lunches are for New Ones.” “…I actually tend to avoid old friends at lunch, Since it’s so easy to get into multi-hour conversations…” — Glyph Lefkowitz | #Lunch #Dinner #Friends
“I used to have to sit down at my computer with intent…” – Rick Osgood
“I used to have to sit down at my computer with intent. I was taking time to go do something online. And it felt more like hunting or exploring. Nowadays it’s much more often a passive experience of consumption. Scrolling on my phone hoping something interesting will come to me via one of the few […]
“I’m old enough to remember when the Internet wasn’t a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four.” – Tom Eastman
“I’m old enough to remember when the Internet wasn’t a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four.” — Tom Eastman
Book Advances
“…Let’s imagine that I receive a $100,000 advance for a future book. Not impossible by any means. The thing is, and this is the point I think Griffin should lean on more heavily: “advance” is a misleading term. Advances don’t come all at once, they come in stages, either three or four of them, for […]
Iteration & Prioritization in Software
“Iteration is all about relentless improvement; not merely fixing what’s broken. It involves striking the right balance between innovation and problem-solving, one that fosters sustainable forward-moving progress. Is software anything but constant iteration? The fundamental objective of iteration is not deciding whether to iterate, but rather prioritizing the most impactful ideas—whether new features, enhancements, or […]
How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode
“Maciej Pocwierz accidentally created an S3 bucket with a name that was already used as a placeholder value in a widely used piece of software. They saw 100 million PUT requests to their new bucket in a single day, racking up a big bill since AWS charges $5/million PUTs. It turns out AWS charge that […]
Picking the people and how they work is the design of design
“Picking the people and how they workis the design of design.” – Michael Heilemann | #Design #Kubrick #People
WordPress “growth hacking”
“Back in 2019, working on WordPress, I started finding myself, almost weekly, arguing against people who wanted to take the product we were working at and made it worse if that mean they could squeeze 0.1% more revenue from it. The 0.1% figure is not even a random number: I remember this speciffic A/B test […]