Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Process > outcome
Process > outcome. A solid process will yield above-average outcomes. Outcomes are dependent on a bunch of variables… but if your process is smart, you push the probability that you get the outcome you want higher.
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There’s more to life than just the main characters.
The Younger version of me was quite similar to the current version – incredibly curious about the world (particularly how it all worked – a big reason why I got an engineering degree), a motor mouth that never stopped running, and a streak of dickishness pervasive in all of it. When I was a kid,…
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How we leveled up the Cookie Off and ended up raising over $200,000…
The last ever Cookie Off is done (check out the pics). The #cookielife is now finished. When I first started planning the Cookie Off, I was in a bit of a bind – we had almost 40 competitors last year – so how was I going to top it? What I did was slightly downgrade…
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Separate the signal from the noise.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of listening to my buddies John Berardi and Phil Caravaggio converse with Jayson Gaignard about their entrepreneurship journey. First off, both are fantastic dudes. They are the literal personification of a CapitalistSuccessStory™ (bootstrapped business that had a 9-figure exit), but they also have the self-awareness not to think they are…
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I was in Paris because of social media…
Social media, to me, is not a place to make fans, but a place to make friends. ———— I was in Paris last week. My buddy Matthew N Kepnes posted a few months ago saying he was moving to Paris and if anyone wanted to visit him. “Sure, I’m in.” A few weeks before I…
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