When learning to ride a motorcycle, you’re taught that where your eyes go, your bike goes. Look to your right and you’ll drift right. Look left, go left. There’s a lot of power in where you focus your attention.
That’s why nailing your North Star Metric(s) — the top-line metrics that all company priorities are aligned around — is so crucial.
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Simply put, productivity is a set of systems or rituals that protect us from future regret.
- Lawrence Yeo, The Time Trap of Productivity
In observing friends who’ve sold startups and made millions: After one year, they’re back to toying with their old side projects. They used their money to buy a nice home and eat well. That’s it.
- Julian Shapiro, Personal Values - How to Choose a Career
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