David Hepworth, quoting from the documentary Joan Rivers - A Piece of Work:
Never mind the long range. What the fuck are we doing Monday?
I think that’s both smart and stupid.
You need to have a visi…
Think deeply and feel fully about what you want your life to be about.
Start with pure love.
If I look back over 20+ years of entrepreneurs I’ve backed, the ones who were anxious and afraid of failure most certainly had worse outcomes than the ones who were agressive and confid…
I feel an overpowering urge to forgive, because I realize that my father can't help himself. My father is what he is, and always will be. And though he can't tell the difference between l…
Brad says my overall problem, the problem that threatens to end my career prematurely, the problem that feels like my father’s legacy, is perfectionism.
“You always try to be perf…
This reads like a paragraph taken straight out of Seth Godin’s All Marketers are Liars, about the story you tell with packaging, distribution channels, and every other aspect of your product:
Field …
When asked during the fireside chat with Jason Calacanis during SXSWi this year, whether he was democrat or republican, Tim O’Reilly answered:
I think I’m a taoist.
Something else interesting he sai…
I’ve recently finished Gordon Ramsay’s auto-biography, I’m on to Andre Agassi’s, and next up is Ted Turner’s (I started reading it as a book, but I prefer audiobooks).
Biographies can be so much more r…
Andre Agassi in Open: An Autobiography:
I’ve internalized my father. His impatience. His perfectionism. His rage. Until his voice doesn’t just feel like my own. It is my own. I no longer need my fat…
I’m fascinated by the relationship between childhood and upbringing and entrepreneurship or creativity of any sort.
John Cleese wrote the book “Families and how to survive them” back in 1984, and when …
