contemporary house with lots of windows
MidJourney Creations #3
medieval European town square with kids playing around merchants selling vegetables and meat soldiers on horseback oil painting detailed
Overheard : On vision
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
Overhead : Tactic vs Strategy
Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.
Savielly Tartakower (French-Polish Chess Grandmaster)