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IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS
This may seem trite, but we believe the most common characteristic of the impressive people we have been lucky enough to meet over the years is a relentless focus on improvement. It’s always just the little things though. Remembering to send a thank you (they probably have a reminder system), waking up five minutes earlier to add another kilometer to their morning run, having rules auto-delete junk email, etc.
The little things add up, and the human brain is absolutely terrible at forecasting the impact of consistently focusing on the small stuff over the course of a lifetime. It is unbelievable.
New Ideas
A wonderful thought piece highlighting how utterly insane a lot of new ideas sound, but also that they are still worth paying attention to if they come from the right source. We almost wish we were dictating this through an Apple Watch or something else that still has a ring of crazy (but is actually possible!) to highlight the point. It’s important to pay attention to new ideas at times, even if they make you uneasy at first blush.
Most implausible-sounding ideas are in fact bad and could be safely dismissed. But not when they're proposed by reasonable domain experts. If the person proposing the idea is reasonable, then they know how implausible it sounds. And yet they're proposing it anyway. That suggests they know something you don't. And if they have deep domain expertise, that's probably the source of it.
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Warren Buffet's Wisdom
People focusing on value investing again? In May, the same month as the Berkshire annual general meeting? It just feels mandatory to include something on the oracle of Omaha this month.
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
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The Death and Life of the Central Business District
We have probably all read a few pieces on the future of office space at this point. We did find that this article provides a good summary, as well as advocates for a new view on business districts.
We have a once-in-a-century opportunity to turn our business districts and our cities into something better, less divided, and more inclusive. Shame on us if we fail to grasp it.
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99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice
You might have noticed that every 5-6 months we feature a random list. Because, well, they are kind of great sometimes (although the opposite may be more common). Don’t let us leave the impression that this isn’t full of gems…
- What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. At your funeral people will not recall what you did; they will only remember how you made them feel.
- You are only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
- If you have any doubt at all about being able to carry a load in one trip, do yourself a huge favor and make two trips.
- You can reduce the annoyance of someone’s stupid belief by increasing your understanding of why they believe it.
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