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TL;DR: "The new fast company isn't fast at all. It's gradual, slow, measured, and organized. It's making small bets. Which, it turns out, is the fastest way of
by startupfounder 13y ago
TL;DR: "The new fast company isn't fast at all. It's gradual, slow, measured, and organized. It's making small bets. Which, it turns out, is the fastest way of all to get back to where you want to be."
As I work on building my startup it is great to have this reminder, it is about calculated actions that over time become more efficient. I have been working on celebrating the small successes and managing my expectations on a daily basis.
I am betting on the long-term compounding interest of my calculated actions, be it writing a line of code, talking and connecting with customers, getting advice from other founders or relaxing with a beer to recharge.
- comrade_ogilvy 13y agoI find the article a little superficial, but there is an underlying truth that can be valuable: sometimes the best way to be great at something is simply to become better and better at that thing, rather than hoping one or three bold and brilliant choices will reap a windfall. I would cite the Wright brothers as an excellent real life example. They were very far from the brightest, best educated, hardest working, or best-financed. But they did do a lot of careful, incremental improvements. And most importantly, they chose to improve themselves: they decided that learning to become skilled at both flying and building gliders would be an important step, before daring to strap on a powerful engine to see what happens.