Formula For Success
formula for success
part luck + part privilege + part hard work + part talent
Luck and talent cannot be controlled
Privilege can be influenced or bought
That's why we focus on hard work
But if we don't succeed, it's not always because we didn't work hard enough
And actually it's almost always luck
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Salted Chocolate + Caramel Ice Cream Cake
life after death
Of course, there's life after death
For those in the living world
For those left behind
For the rest of us
im dead 💀
86 units shy of a stupid degree
I don't have a marketing degree, so I work harder than those with one.
I don't have that piece of paper to point to when people ask for my qualifications so I've built a body of work that I can point to instead.
Work that I've poured my everything into.
Work that shows bottom-line improvement numbers because I don't have grades to show.
When I take up a project I put my back into it because I know that if I fail people won't attribute it to market conditions, budget constraints, or bad luck but to my lack of a marketing degree, formal education, and theoretical knowledge.
Pub trail run like The World's End
Why don't pubs everywhere do a tie up and have a trail run like in the movie The World's End?
Promote it all over the town, have posters of it all over the pubs, mention it in the QR menu. Ask patrons each time one gets seated if they're doing the trail run and get them interested in doing it.
Get the trail run included in online publications, blogs, travel forums, and promote the heck out of it.
Win-win for all pubs in the area.
autonomy and accountability go hand in hand
Autonomy without accountability is useless. You're free. Free for what? Free to do what? We need to specify. You're not free to fly like a bird and fall like a stone. You're not (always) free to travel without a visa.
Direction is important with freedom.
If you want autonomy you have to be accountable for something. The reverse is also true: If someone holds you accountable for something, they should give you autonomy.
life's a song
Life is a song of souls
Of hard truths that rarely get told
Of soft lies that comfort the bold
