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upstartsmedia.com

Why A Software Startup With $300M In ARR Is Refocusing Its Entire Business

We were in a really great place as a business. But the cost of spending time on things that aren't important, or that you believe don't have a future, is immense.
— Job van der Voort

2w ago

The mind of a thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bazaar overcrowded with cheap wares, all one's attention is perpetually distracted by some new and startling suggestion.

2w ago

3quarksdaily.com

The Isle of the Dead: I am not against stupid painters

I only ever have a fairly small amount of looking in my system, I guess you could say, and I wanted, rather zealously and also somewhat self-protectively, I wanted to reserve all my looking-energy for the Friedrich paintings.

1mo ago

stratechery.com

Tim Cook’s Impeccable Timing

We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us. We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot.

1mo ago

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

2mo ago

The task of life is not so much to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

2mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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