You always have something to learn.
Even when you are on top of your game, even when you have been around for decades, even when you are the number 1. There is always something more, or something else.
Keep your senses alert. Not because you should not rest or because you should always stress, but because there are still opportunities to learn something new.
And that’s the essence of life.
When you want to do things that matter, things that change the status quo, things that make an impact, a great place to start is to own your own schedule.
Even if you are in an entry-level role, if you keep bouncing from one task that is important to your senior colleague to the next task that is important to the manager, you will never get to what is important to you.
And that, in the long term, matters more than anything else.
It’s never been “work at the office” versus “work from home”.
It’s about giving people the possibility to choose where they are more productive and can deliver their better job. And most likely, for most people, that will end up being a healthy combination of the two.
Not everything is a war and the most beautiful stuff is often found in the middle.
A problem needs a solution.
A hunch needs clarity.
An idea needs execution.
An opinion needs an audience.
The point is, you can’t treat them all in the same way. If you share a hunch with an audience, most people will find it pointless and fail to understand. If you try to execute on a opinion, most of the times you’ll end up going alone. If you give your audience a problem, they will look at you for a solution.
If you are unsure what you are about to express, it’s ok to take some time to think it through.
Silence is not a sign of weakness.
There might be many wrong aspects in these emails (and some good too), but the key thing here is that they reflect a bias – or a series of bias – that many founders fall for.
It’s the idea that just because they do work (successfully in this case, but that is not necessary) in a certain way, then everybody else is supposed to do that too.
It’s the idea that by doing more of the same they will automatically scale the results.
It’s the idea that in order for their employees to show they care, they need to conform and comply.
This is typically building an enormous blind spot for founders and their companies. And that’s very dangerous in the long term.
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