Social interaction is hard by itself. What makes it even harder is when the survival of your company depends on it and it always does. To understand why the teams, products and ultimately companies fail, let’s take a closer look at the most severe dysfunctions of a team.
- Feb 9, 2024...more
Self Sabotage
Feb 1, 2024...moreThis post is a mix of the ideas taken out of the Netflix movie Stutz and my own knowledge on psychology, evolution and creativity gathered over the years.
The first step to overcome our brain’s intention to self sabotage important decisions is to embrace the reality. There are three aspects of the reality that no one can avoid. Those three aspects are:
- Pain - no matter what you do in life, no matter how good your intentions are - the pain is inevitable
- Uncertainty - even if you try to thoroughly plan every step you take and every thought you think, there will always be stuff out of your control. It will have an impact on you - either positive or negative but you won’t be able to control it
- Constant Work - work on yourself never stops. Whenever you think you are it means you start going backwards
Life Force
Jan 29, 2024...moreEach man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself….His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one’s own inwardness.
― Herman HesseOwn Nothing
Jan 7, 2024...moreWe’ve been hearing the
declutter
,shared economy
andown less
toown nothing
narrative for the past couple of years now but what is it all about? Why, all of a sudden, we should stop owning anything although it is against our nature. Why is this narrative being pushed upon us so vigorously by the people that are owning almost everything? Let’s find out.Rich People Economy
Nov 30, 2023...moreIf you have ever asked yourself why rich people get richer and poor people get poorer - this article is for you
Let’s see why it is so hard to leave the poverty land and acquire the rich people mentality.
To fully understand the problem, let’s illustrate the differences between a person being born into a wealthy family versus a person being born into a regular one.
Reverse Pitch
Oct 6, 2023...moreBest way to get invested in is
not to ask for money
.If you want to secure an investment from a reputable investor or a VC fund you have to use the
reverse pitch
methodExaltatio
Jun 13, 2023...moreExaltatio
- Latin fora state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
May you live in interesting times
- English curseProgression
Feb 27, 2023...moreIf you want your team to be efficient, you will have to nurture and grow your own talent. It may be very seductive to hire an on- or an off-shore software development shop to quickly build out your product but it’s a slippery slope if you are planning to build a proper company and not just ride the hype wave and hope you will sell out soon.
Hire Please
Feb 16, 2023...moreEverything written below is highly influenced by my personal experience and talks that were given by the people I’m following.
Founding Team
Feb 16, 2023...moreIf you’re long enough in the tech business, you should have heard a tale about 3H that every startup needs. In order for a startup to become successful it needs 3 founders:
- a Hacker
- a Hustler
- a Hippie (they call it Hipster nowadays but don’t follow the crowd)