What do you stand for?
#126 - From idea to Series A - Weekly Newsletter
3 minutes to reflect
Look at this picture—this is a restaurant with 4.9 stars and only 2 options on the menu. They're actually the same dish; one is vegan and one is not. Do one thing and do it well. This is the way.
With this logic in mind, listen to this from author Murakami in his great book *What I Talk About When I Talk About Running*:
"I'm struck by how, except when you're young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up your time and energy. If you don't get that sort of system set by a certain age, you'll lack focus and your life will be out of balance.
I placed the highest priority on the sort of life that lets me focus on writing, not associating with all the people around me. I felt that the indispensable relationship I should build in my life was not with a specific person, but with an unspecified number of readers.
As long as I got my day-to-day life set so that each work was an improvement over the last, then many of my readers would welcome whatever life I chose for myself. Shouldn't this be my duty as a novelist, and my top priority?
My opinion hasn't changed over the years. I can't see my readers' faces, so in a sense it's a conceptual type of human relationship, but I've consistently considered this invisible, conceptual relationship to be the most important thing in my life.
In other words, you can't please everybody.
Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one out of ten enjoyed the place and said he'd come again, that was enough. If one out of ten was a repeat customer, then the business would survive.
To put it the other way, it didn't matter if nine out of ten didn't like my bar.
This realization lifted a weight off my shoulders. Still, I had to make sure that the one person who did like the place really liked it. In order to make sure he did, I had to make my philosophy and stance clear-cut, and patiently maintain that stance no matter what. This is what I learned through running a business."2 resources to advance to pro
2 Resources to pro
In a world where intelligence is abundant and cheap, schools need an update.
Poor Uber drivers. When people go driverless, they are sold.
30% retention rate for driverless service Waymo - probably would be higher if it wasn’t for the tourists trying the service once when visiting SF
1 reason to smile
Ai is starting to save lives.
Have a great weekend,
Simone