May 2012
8 posts
Health and family are all that really matter. No amount of wealth, power, fame, nothing else trumps the importance of health and family. Focus on these two things above all else.
Congrats to all my friends involved with Facebook. Deep thanks for accelerating the rate of change in our world. This is a historic day for the tech world. Entrepreneurship is a force for good.
In my strategic overview of the landscape ahead I see tremendous and fierce competitive forces for the four giants: Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, Microsoft. I have reached the conclusion that I must treat Facebook-Microsoft as one quasi-company. I call it FBSoft. This is not dissimilar to the US-UK in WWII (yes MS is UK in this example- this analogy does not carry with it moral parallels at...
Success Amnesia...
Practice success and failure amnesia. Forget that you succeeded. Forgive and forget that you failed. Learn from both and move on fast. Failure can be a patient teacher- it’s often a learnable event. Success can lead to signal and pattern blindness. The greatest achievers I have met are grounded and focused. They practice success amnesia. Achievement is a state of mind. It needs to be practiced,...
