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UK alcohol consumption at an all-time low
me until recent times

after deciding that i can just do things

mental masturbation and waiting to be ready or for perfection are the pitfalls i had
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today i was watching shopping in japan when i overheard a small kid asking his father

*pointing to the display cases of luxury watches*
“arent these just watches?”

“yes,” said dad

“why are they so expensive? they can only tell the time, right?”

“yes,” sighed dad as he continued browsing

“can’t you just look at your phone?”

couldn’t help but laugh because the purity of the child is spot on
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I tell you, if one wants to be active, one mustn’t be afraid to do something wrong sometimes, not afraid to lapse into some mistakes. To be good — many people think that they’ll achieve it by doing no harm — and that’s a lie, and you said yourself in the past that it was a lie. That leads to stagnation, to mediocrity. Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

You don’t know how paralyzing it is, that stare from a blank canvas that says to the painter you can’t do anything. The canvas has an idiotic stare, and mesmerizes some painters so that they turn into idiots themselves.

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares — and who has once broken the spell of ‘you can’t’.

Life itself likewise always turns towards one an infinitely meaningless, discouraging, dispiriting blank side on which there is nothing, any more than on a blank canvas.

But however meaningless and vain, however dead life appears, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, and who knows something, doesn’t let himself be fobbed off like that. He steps in and does something, and hangs on to that, in short, breaks, ‘violates’ — they say.

Vincent van Gogh

https://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let464/letter.html
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this is a pretty good read on negotiation, a useful skill in everyday life

a study done by Neil Rackham on skilled negotiators

https://x.com/Kpaxs/status/1967806785294844179
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The 1-Page Marketing Plan by Allan Dib

great concise marketing book with good tempo

most lessons are to the point, short and sweet, which makes reading it rather easy

main takeaways:
- customers will only know how good your product is AFTER buying it, and marketing gets them there.
- think like a farmer, not a hunter
- in the modern era, reputation is the most valuable commodity
- target emotions through storytelling and touchpoints
- and more that can’t be squeezed in here

fav quotes:
Small hinges swing big doors.

Money isn’t everything… but it ranks right up there with oxygen.


4/5
suitable read for entrepreneurs or marketers
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Obviously Awesome by April Dunford

quick read, less than 200 pages

to the point guide on April’s 10-step positioning process for entrepreneurs/marketers

main takeaways:
- short listing your best-fit customers to find your best position
- considering competitive alternatives and they do not have to be competitors. it can be something like “hiring an intern”
- 5+1 effective positioning

fav quotes:
The future isn’t a place we are going to go, it’s a place we get to create.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.


4/5
good material for entrepreneurs/marketers
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