Not the pitch
“There are no wrong notes” That’s Victor Wooten, bass legend. “I don’t have perfect pitch, but i don’t care. Because you’re not gonna dance to the key. You dance to the groove.All the notes are right, but it’s the context that makes it right, not the pitch.” This is the lesson you can take on ditching product-market fit. Why? Because it’s all about the context. You need to find the right context to make it groove. And for something to be groovy, sometimes it needs to not fit. The context is…
Simplicity
“Simplicity has a very specific construction and there’s a reason why it works.” Bryan Beller Simple doesn’t mean easy. Simple doesn’t mean not-hard. Simple doesn’t mean no-impact. Simple simply (pun intended) means de-complexed, so that focus can be the next step onto what to choose.
Themes over resolutions
“New Year’s resolutions are a perfectly valid mechanism for helping to drive change in one’s career, business or life, but most of them fail to achieve such change, I believe, because they’re framed as quantifiable, all-or-nothing goals.” Blair Enns This is a great piece about resolutions and how you can redirect the energy into making them successful (or at least give them higher chances of). Here’s the full view of Blair’s post.
To be or not to be
That is the question. Probing with yesterday’s question “What IS original?” brought me to interesting, unthought places. Because “To Be / Being” can take different meanings. From one perspective, it can be taken as a yes/no answer. From another one, as if the subject has the characteristics of originality or not. From another one, as the definition of original. Or, as what involves to make the subject original. Even as the reasons to define the subject as original. Why a subject? Because…
Just one question
To you: What’s original?
The thing on resolutions
Doing new year’s resolutions can feel motivating. Here, fellow daily writer Shweta, from Superlista shows that temporal landmarks are important events to start afresh. However, the thing with resolutions is not the resolution itself, but making it realistic and actionable enough for you to keep at it. Because otherwise resolutions end up being wishful thinking. And wishful thinking, when assessed from the future into the past, brings judgement, resentment, overanalyzing and remorse. This is…
Dumping New Year’s Resolutions
The thing about resolutions is that they usually stay behind at some point in the year. You can do commitments. You can do promises. You can do goals setting. But to start the new year, make things simple for you. Star with ONE thing. This one thing can take 2 forms: One with the big picture in mind. Or One to be a high actionable thing to implement asap (and keep at it). Either way you go, you can give it a try with this: Grab a piece of paper, write down your desires/thoughts/wishes/goals…
When is it good enough?
Having high-complexity projects means you’re assuming that 1. You need to budget for a longer timeframe. 2. Things will usually take longer when not everything is under your full control. So, what do you do there? Do you wait till everything is done and ready to implement? Or do you start shipping at certain milestones/stages? Both have trade-offs. Choosing which one is the right one comes with a deep understanding of what you’re trying to achieve at the end. And that’s the first thing to…
A new year is coming
And while most do “resolutions”, you could take another road. Nevertheless, it’s about, first, thinking of your goals for the next year. And picking a strategy to get them. Which, also brings us to the default of strategic planning. However, is a strategy a plan —as most people and “gurus” say? Because if it is… What in the hell would strategic planning be? A planning plan????? It all starts with know what each thing is. It all starts with clarity.
Prospects goals
You should not know your prospects’ goals. But understand them. And know how to get them closer to those goals. Sometimes, the goals that are on the surface are just intuitive responses to symptoms. And most times, this self-diagnose is not the right one.