The Three Kinds of Leverage That Anchor Effective Strategies 8 minutes read.
"Leveraging strengths is the only way to do great work. (Not "fixing weaknesses.") Better yet, leveraging differentiated strengths means you beat the competition. Best is when that differentiation is durable over time." --Jason Cohen does his best - Capturing great insights from a long career of building companies. For example, here is one that will force you to look deeper not only at your product but also at your internal infrastructure: "A competitor who invests in a core platform with specific trade-offs will not be able to change those trade-offs for years, if ever; therefore selecting different trade-offs, resulting in different product features (and liabilities), will remain differentiated."
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Compounding Optimism 4 minutes read.
Morgan Housel writes beautifully about the importance of compounding optimism and understanding we don't know how our words and ideas might influence future generations: "Ideas compound. Inventions compound. Education compounds. A trivial thing can grow into a massive thing, and faster than most people realize. [...] But when you view it as one person coming up with a small idea, another person copying that idea and tweaking it a little, another taking that insight and manipulating it a bit, another yet taking that product and combining it with something else – incremental, tiny bits, little ideas mixing, joining, blending, mutating, and compounding together – it’s suddenly much more conceivable."
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