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management by objectives gives people room to maneuver and to express themselves; or they can be stressful, disheartening places constrained by a thicket of rules, procedures, budgets, and arbitrary targets.
“I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.”
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“I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.”
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“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.”
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“Think Different”
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“I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.”
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Frank Luong’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Frank Luong’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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608 friends
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