Do you value individual contributors, or collaboration? Do you value people fitting in, or people belonging? Do you value integrity, or “whatever it takes”? Do you value sustainability growth, or does only the short term matter? Do you value doing what’s right, or doing what’s right for you? Act accordingly.
Category: success
Authority, Freedom, Benefits, and Responsibility
Everyone wants the perks of being a leader. The respect, the authority, the freedom to “do what you want.” The performance bonuses, access to resources, the ability to hire and fire people. Not everyone is willing to take the responsibility for being a leader, though. Having to act in a […]
“Overnight” Success
For anyone who needs to hear it: things take time to build. Remember that all of the 1-minute timelapse “tutorials,” TEDTalks, highlight reels, and “overnight” success are all the result of much longer amounts of time than you might think. Jerry Seinfield rehearsed his five minute stand-up bit 200 times […]
“This Is For Your Own Good”
Whenever anyone gives you advice and tells you “This is for your own good,” I assert almost in every case it’s actually for their own good. This is not to say that it isn’t for yours as well, but the very nature of the reasoning behind why you would say […]
Unfriendly Competition
Competition is part of life. We compete for attention, compete for awards and records, and we compete for business. Yet so many people “compete” by using smear campaigns, sabotaging business transactions, and basically attacking their competitors instead of making their product better. This isn’t a recipe for success, it’s a […]
I Was Wrong
People seem to have an allergic reaction to saying “I was wrong.” Well, I was wrong thinking Bitcoin would never go over $10k. I was wrong about when I thought the COVID vaccines wouldn’t be available in the US until July. I was wrong about thinking I would have kids […]
Archive and Grow
The one good and bad thing about doing things in public is that there’s a record of what you’ve made. I can look back on my old artwork, or my old blog posts, or things I said on social media from years ago. The bad – or maybe, less fun […]
The Good for the Great
There’s the old saying, “Sometimes you have to give up the good for the great.” I disagree. Mainly, I disagree as you won’t ever know if you gave up the good for the great. This is completely speculative. Once you make a decision, you have selected one path from another. […]
Knowing vs. KNOWING
Often we know facts, inspirational sayings, and quotes from thought leaders. However, I’d posit we don’t often KNOW the lessons embodied by those pieces of information. This is because knowledge is helpful, but falls short if there is no context. As highlighted in the toxic culture that plagued Uber, “Do […]
Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth was known as a home-run slugger, swinging super hard and, when connecting, knocking the baseball literally out of the park. He was just an overall amazing batter, with legendary career averages, and was one of the first five players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. But he […]