Busy ≠ Productive

Know and be conscious of the difference.

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Be Impatient

If you want to be an effective change-maker, be impatient with the status quo.

If the bureaucracy is stopping you from making a change or moving forward, challenge it and don’t take “no” for an answer. If you do get “no” as an answer, speak to a superior.

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lizard brain…

Paraphrased from the brilliant Seth Godin:

if you can spend 12 hours being efficient rather than 12 hours being remarkable that’s 12 more hours the lizard brain stole

I.e. Get off Lifehacker and start creating/finishing/delivering!

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80/20

One should not spend 80% of the time formatting the document and 20% of the time understanding the argument and turning it into bullets/notes.

Toss all the filtered data/evidence/claims into the doc, then make it look good later (not the other way around).

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Rough Notes from “Unlearn Your MBA” by David Heineimeier Hansson

  • work on your writing skills
  • honest and simple terms work better than business lingo
  • planning is guessing–think 2 weeks out
  • just get going
  • put a price on your product (so you can make a profit)
  • constraints are your friends
  • one is forced to build something simpler than everything else and different from everyone else
  • doing less and having fewer b.s. features can be a great thing
  • there are no “over-night successes”
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