In this post, I want to deconstruct a classic phrase: “If you work hard and make the right decisions, you will succeed.”
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Author Jacob Robinson
Managing Your Personal KPIs
When we want to understand the success of a product launch, we use KPIs — key performance indicators — to figure out what went right and what went wrong. But, what if we want to understand the success of our lives? What indicators do we use?
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So, how do you get into Harvard? Well, it’s actually quite easy. Let’s break it down.
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If you don’t find product-market fit, your company dies. But if you do survive long enough to find fit, an interesting thing happens; all companies go through just about the same life cycle every time.
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Suicide is a massively taboo topic. In addition — perhaps by causation — it is immensely interesting to discuss. In this post I’m going to go over some basic theory on suicide, and perhaps give some useful tips to help those dealing with suicidal tendencies.
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