via Andy Grove’s, Only The Paranoid Survive:
The person who is the star of previous era is often the last one to adapt to change, the last one to yield to logic of a strategic inflection point and tends to fall harder than most.
Harder Than Most
Disarmed by the Doing
Inspiration is for amateurs. Everyone else shows up to work. A professional has professional habits, which necessarily include showing up to work, especially when you don’t feel like it.
There will always be resistance, expect it. Don’t be so easily distracted, get it done. There’s no point in waiting for the muse.
Taking the First Step
Relationships are hard and our egos make building, maintaining them, and growing them very difficult.
In fact, most of the time we have all that we need to have very healthy and successful relationships but we self-sabotage our chances because of our pride, our ego, and even our own anxiety.
Fill the Gaps
I’ve been spending a little bit more of my time working with my brother recently around his YouTube Channel and his new community site and what we’re looking at doing now is filling in the gaps of what we now understand as definitive needs within the community.
Surprising Places
I’ve shared previously my history with alcohol and, more specifically, my really bad relationship with booze and I’m happy to say that I’ve continued to stay strong and haven’t had a drink since I quit cold-turkey late last year.
I’m very, very excited to celebrate the one year anniversary of one of the most significant decisions of my life and I know that I’m going to make it.
Mental Illness is No Black Mark
Was having a brief but impactful conversation with a colleague about mental illness and he mentioned something that forced me to quickly (and hopefully kindly) interrupt:
Let the Best Team Win
A challenging thing for any startup team to work and manage through is competition and the growing number of projects and companies that are competing directly in your space.
Or entering into it.
Internet is a Strange Place
The internet is so entertaining… it allows you to encounter all sorts of people from every corner of the planet (or almost…).
Unfortunately, a lot of that engagement is more frustrating than fun which is why I’ve turned off a lot of my social media and even made one of the best decisions in my digital life to turn off comments on my blog.
Ghosts and Machines
There is a phenomena that all software programmers are aware of and have experienced which is the unexplainable behavior of software.
In other words, a ghost in the machine is something that we will say when we simply can’t explain a malfunction (or even something working properly!) related to something that we’ve created or something that someone else has written.
Growing, The Hard Way
I’m just inside what I feel like is the final lap for my 365-day YouTube challenge, which I started (and rebooted) back in November of last year.
In 2 months I’ll be there and I know, at this point in time, that I’m going to make it. But, man… it’s been one helluva grind.