A few that jumped out at me:
3. You must go through the motions of being creative…The more times you try to get ideas, the more active your brain becomes and the more creative you become.
6. Never stop with your first good idea.
10. You do not see things as they are; you see them as you are.
11. Always approach a problem on its own terms. Do not trust your first perspective of a problem as it will be too biased toward your usual way of thinking.
12. Learn to think unconventionally. Creative geniuses do not think analytically and logically. Conventional, logical, analytical thinkers are exclusive thinkers which means they exclude all information that is not related to the problem.
9 filters for getting rid of negative thoughts from a post by James Altucher:
- Pessimistic thoughts
- Vice
- Perfectionism/shame
- Jealousy
- Painful
- Fear
- Obsessive
- Sadness
- Unimprovement
“Here’s a rundown on the weekly calendar Dorsey keeps as CEO of payments platform Square and chairman of Twitter.
Monday: Management meetings and “running the company” work
Tuesday: Product development
Wednesday: Marketing, communications and growth
Thursday: Developers and partnerships
Friday: The company and its culture
Weekends are a bit slower: Saturdays are for hiking and Sundays are for “reflection, feedback and strategy,” Dorsey said.”
A good outline for how to structure your interview questions. When you know this is the information you’re trying to learn, it’s easier to know what to ask to learn it.
“Expectation, as it turns out, is just as important as raw sensation. The build up to an experience can completely change how you interpret the information reaching your brain from your otherwise objective senses.”
My takeaways:
- Pick a day of the week where you focus on vocalizing the positive contributions team members are making to the company. Make it a habit.
- Feed them. It’s a fancy perk that doesn’t have to cost a lot.
- Know your team’s 5 top personal goals
The iPad is the training wheels for HTML5.
Don’t try to be “social”: the big social platforms are created. You can’t create a social company, it’s just a checkbox. “The last 500 social companies funded by the VC community are all worthless. I’m serious.”
But this creates an opportunity: while everyone is focused on social distribution, there’s a huge opportunity to get content right with HTML5. “Let’s create a new product, the way music videos were a new product.”
