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Comment on The Fourth Economy and The Future of Work by Joseph Greenfield

very much in step with another book I’ve just read, Reinventing Organizations. Have you heard of this? http://www.reinventingorganizations.com/

Comment on Good People as a Sustainable Competitive Advantage by Allen Lee Scott

Great! Deming, not Demison, though.

Comment on Nine 80/20 Principles for Entrepreneurs Learned From Writing a Book by Taylor Pearson

I’m 100% guilty of the same. I do think that in the early stages (first 3-5 years) of most businesses there is just a lot of grunt work to get done and you have to make it happen. That being said, I do think there’s a bit of romanticizing of the Puritan work ethic which probably generates very little societal value.

Comment on The Entrepreneur’s Daily Ritual by Luke

I hear you on the minutiae! I looked into it and got mixed answers from IF people. It seems that none of those foods will cause an insulin response. However, a guy that I follow named Greg O’Ghallagher says that ingesting fats will blunt growth hormone secretion. He had nothing to say about the potato starch.

Comment on The Entrepreneur’s Daily Ritual by Taylor Pearson

My understanding is that the beneficial effects of fasting are not undercut by non-caloric food (raw potato starch is undigestible so effectively 0 calories) or pure fat (butter, coconut oil, fish oil).

That being said, I’m largely going from subjective experience. As long as i feel good and health markers are good, I try not to overthink the minutiae (though I often do anyway :))

Comment on Case Study: Growing a B2B eCommerce Business 527% in 18 Months by Chris W

I took notes on the tropical MBA show, heard about this link and wow, value bombs indeed! There is even more detail here than in the show.

Comment on My General Operating Principles: 37 Principles for Making Hard Decisions by Pat Larsen

Yeah- “money” is really just an agreement between people that is a placeholder for time, attention, effort, experience. Can’t eat that paper fiat currency. Can’t do anything physically useful with gold (unlike iron or lead) unless you are building semi-conductors. Having more money just means being able to command more “people power” to build a car or yacht for you, fly you somewhere by refining oil, studying and practicing for 20 years to get your medical diagnosis right….people.
It’s really...

Comment on My General Operating Principles: 37 Principles for Making Hard Decisions by Taylor Pearson

Great share, thanks Pat.

i’ve been thinking a lot lately about the “other people are everything bit”

When you get down to it, there’s just not much left after the people and the work we get to do with them.

After being able to do cool work with cool people, much of life seems to leave pretty marginal returns.

Comment on My General Operating Principles: 37 Principles for Making Hard Decisions by Taylor Pearson

Yea, generally seems to be true for me that if you’re on the fence and it’s anything longer than a 3 month commitment, it’s not worth taking it.

Comment on My General Operating Principles: 37 Principles for Making Hard Decisions by Pat Larsen

Taylor, great list. I’m definitely going to share it.

Do you prioritize the list?

The US Military created a Code of Conduct that was meant to be easily remembered and counted on during the absolute toughest of times- indefinite imprisonment in war (POW).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_the_United_States_Fighting_Force

Here are a couple. Some of these are from the perspective of a father and military guy.

Be a steadfast friend and a terrifying enemy

Avoid almost all conflict. Walk away...