I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

BEN HOROWITZ

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I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

Ben Horowitz

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Said

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Notes Self
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

BEN HOROWITZ

I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
BEN HOROWITZ

Said
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Running
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?

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If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Jobs never
How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.

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How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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Jobs Skills
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.

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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Startup
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Useless Valuable
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.

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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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Inspiration Jobs
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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Stories
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

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The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Goal Made

I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

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