Leadership isn’t about being the hero. It’s about empowering your team to become heroes themselves.
Google Gemini
For folks that are driven, wired to see an issue and tackle it head-on, it is difficult to not jump in and “try” to help your team whenever they run into an issue. But the reality is that most folks are capable, creative individuals. They just need the space to flex their own problem-solving muscles.
If you team has the skills and experience, let them handle it :-).
Avoiding Stupidity is Easier than Seeking Brilliance
– Shane Parrish rewording Charlie Munger
Wisdom is turning your future hindsight into your current foresight
– Shane Parrish
A quote from Japanese philosophy repeated by Coach Paul Assaiante on practice
You cry in practice and you laugh in competition
The way we act determines how we feel way more often than the way we feel determines how we act.
Seth Godin, in a chat with Tim Ferriss
Strategy without talent is helpless and talent without strategy is hopeless.
Gary Burnison (CEO Korn Ferry)
Saam Motamedi on how technology makes progress
Part of the thing that I think is amazing about technology is that the progress is usually sooner and stranger than you think.
“A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”
– William Penn
Geoff Saab on the strength and weakness of passive investing in his book “Low Risk Rules : A Wealth Preservation Manifesto“
Pro : “You own a piece of every company.“
Con : “You own a piece of every company?“
So subtle, but so powerful!
Patrick Collison (Co-Founder and CEO of Stripe) shared this snippet of an internal email that David Stearns (Staff Engineer at Stripe) wrote about Dee Hock. Dee Hock was the founder of Visa and this statement on Dee’s vision really connected with me
Today, I can hop on a plane to most anywhere in the world and use my Visa card to purchase goods and services regardless of the language spoken by the merchant, the currency of the merchant’s bank account, or the time zone difference between the merchant’s shop and my issuing bank. In the 1960’s this was unthinkable. Today’s magic was yesterday’s dream, and Hock was one of the biggest dreamers of all.
Full copy of the snippet below
