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Happiness

on Aug 21, 2010
I just realized (and not for the first time) that I have a story going on inside my head that I can't be happy right now, because then I'd be tacitly agreeing with or accepting everything in my life a…
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A sense of who they are

on Aug 18, 2010
Challengers [...] often have a founder at the center, many of whose personal beliefs they reflect and amplify. Richard Branson is offering his own personal culture within Virgin: the smiling revolutio…
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Failure

on Aug 17, 2010
When you build a startup to target a specific opportunity in the market, you may fail. You didn't manage to grab the opportunity, and now it's gone. On to the next opportunity.

But when you stop chasin…
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Fur trapper

on Aug 17, 2010
"I would never be happy playing by the normal rules of business. I wanted to distance myself as far as possible from those pasty-faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads... I wanted to be …
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