Gemini AI. Growth and scale are ultimately constrained by management capacity, organizational systems, and operational infrastructure rather than pure personal drive or ambition. [1, 2, 3] Why Management Limits Ambition
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Proxemics
[Gemini AI] Proxemics is the study of how humans use physical space and distance during social interactions, as well as how space and population density affect behavior and communication. The term was coined by anthropologist Edward T. Hall in the late 1950s and early 1960s. [1, 2, 3, 4] You can read more detailed research…
Read moreFrank Sinatra doesn’t move his own piano.
Zig-zag a bit.
I’m going to zig and zag a bit, but I’ll get to the final destination my way. And I won’t break any cardinal rules.
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The only way to make your present better is to make your future bigger.
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Coffee with Mike and Ryan in Austin, Texas. I was taught this: AI Overview This framework is an excellent, highly practical blueprint for problem-solving maturity and autonomy, often used in workplace management, engineering, and personal development. It maps how an individual or team transitions from being passive observers to fully self-directed executors. Here is a…
Read moreTime is an instrument
Time is an instrument. It can be sped up, slowed down, and played forward and backward. To play time well is to have others dance to your beat. “They are unable to allow precisely for lead time, lag time, incubation time, time to build up a heed of steam, time to forget, time to get…
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If everything is important, nothing is important.Thoughts to get you through your day, your work, your life. “This too shall pass.”– Persian adage “You cannot underestimate the unimportance of practically everything.”– John C Maxwell “Who would you be if you didn’t believe this lie?”– Byron Katie (the lies we tell ourselves about reality) “Is it…
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Two men are laying bricks. Somebody asked one of them what they were doing. The first man’s response was, “I’m laying bricks.” To the same question, the other man answers, “I’m building a cathedral.” I don’t want to go through my life thinking I’m just laying bricks I’d much Paraphrased from Founders Podcast episode 347…
Read moreAn Advisor’s Thoughts
The following are notes captured in a particular meeting I had a few years back with one of our advisors. Notes Stop sweating over $10,000 problems. Sure, you have to sweat the small stuff sometimes, but you can’t fixate on this. What’s the million-dollar problem? When someone says, “We’re over budget by $50K,” It’s a…
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