The Gap Between Reputation and Personal Brand
Reputation is old. Personal brands are new. It is useful to know that they are not the same thing.
Reputation is old. Personal brands are new. It is useful to know that they are not the same thing.
Some careers can be made on the back of a single, wonderful idea. We take a look at what that looks like, through the lens of venture capitalist Bill Gurley's career.
Over the long term, enthusiasm for most projects fade with time. Here's one useful way to think about it.
Range is a mediocre 2019 book by David Epstein that argues for the merits of being a generalist. Read this summary instead of the book, and subscribe to Epstein's newsletter instead.
Ram Charan's 2001 book on business principles is probably the best concise introduction to how a business works.
Neil Irwin's 2019 book How to Win is a tactical book on career planning in a the face of macro-economic change.
April Dunford's book on product positioning is awesome, and has some overlap with those of us who are interested in positioning an individual career.
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One way that first principles thinking fails is when you build your analysis up from a deficient set of base principles. Everything is correct and true, but you still end up mistaken. Here's how that looks like in practice.
Thinking is split roughly into pattern matching against experience, and reasoning from first principles. Here's one argument for why you need both.
If you can only put two ideas to practice a week, then you're inevitably going to have to deal with a bottleneck of 'to-experiment' ideas.