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On Business

  • “Work is love made visible.”, KG
  • “Life is in a constant state of flux and careers are long. As much as we obsess about the short-term, the immediate and the adrenaline rush of the moment – your career, your success and your legacy are created and built in the long-term.”, Pascal Finette
  • “Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you.”, Ryan Lilly
  • “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”, Maya Angelou
  • “A leader is anyone who holds her or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. The term leader has nothing to do with position, status, or number of direct reports.”, Brene Brown
  • "How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.", Hemingway
  • “I love shipping code”
  • "See One, Do One, Teach One"
  • "All happy projects are alike; each unhappy project is unhappy in its own way."
  • "Assign a career mentor to be responsible for the development of the prospect and carefully keep a career file.", Peter Norvig
  • "Make your work and passion the same thing"...if you can :)
  • "If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid", Epictetus
  • "Seek first, then apply"
  • "I still underestimate the compounding power of the rapid execution and iterated learning feedback loop. A commitment to this, over the course of a career, is the closest thing you can get to guaranteed success." Sam Altman
  • "Have you taken the time to get clarity about who you are and what you stand for? Or are you too busy chasing unimportant things, mimicking the wrong influences, and following disappointing or unfulfilling or nonexistent paths?"
  • "Get to know a system even better than the people who designed it (if you are going to attack it)"
  • "You work for the Internet"
  • "Trust but verify", Russian proverb
  • "A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don’t need to own very many of them.", Warren Buffett
  • "Consensus within ConsenSys"
  • "Unique company...secial group of people, special point in time"
  • "It might take weeks, months, or years but opportunity will present itself and they’ll find it and seize it because they’ll be looking for it or they’ll create it where it does not exist." @gainzy222
  • "90% of success is not getting distracted", anon
  • "As the adage goes, ‘you ship your org chart,'" said one current employee. "It's chaos here right now, so we’re shipping chaos."
  • "It’s not done until it ships and users are finding value in it"
  • "Fall in love with the problem, not the solution"
  • "The best way to predict the future is to invent it"
  • "Make reversible decisions quickly and irreversible ones deliberately"
  • "To succeed you have to first learn to fail"