Don’t End The Week With Nothing
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- Once I came to the conclusion that I’d probably quit, and therefore discounted the till-your-death-do-us-part slow accumulation of firm-specific capital, I realized something which is fundamentally true of a lot of day jobs. Nothing I did at the job mattered, in the long run.
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Don’t end the week with nothing. Prefer to work on things you can show. Prefer to work where people can see you. Prefer to work on things you can own.
- Write about those lessons as you learn them. If at all possible, publish what you write. Even if it is published to an audience of no one, you will be able to point people back to it later.
- It’s easier to be sticklers for the stock agreements when there’s absolutely no cost to the company to insist on the usual boilerplate, but minor concessions on the boilerplate are often easier than concessions on things which actually appear on the company’s books.
- widespread employee ownership of the enterprise is one of the single best innovations in the history of capitalism.
- Consumption Is Sometimes Valuable, But Creation Moves You Forward