Mark Suster (GRP) gets the VC post of the day with his post Avoid Monoculture. Travel. Read Widely. Let Experience be Your Compass. It’s a really great post to read just before the weekend to remind you to make sure you are living your life and constantly exploring new things, rather than just being heads down on whatever you are working on. I’ve spent much of the summer in Europe (in Paris and Tuscany) “just living” – which includes plenty of work, but a completely change of context for how I live my every day life. I’ll write a lot more about this on Feld Thoughts after I get back to Boulder, but in the mean time much of what Mark said rang true to me as I read it, especially:
“Challenge conventional wisdom. Fight monoculture. Question authority. Take lots of inputs but then let your internal compass set your course. If “all the cool kids are doing it” make sure you have strong internal logic for why you’re going to follow them. Often it’s not the best course.”
Bryce Roberts (OATV) gets runner up with his post There Is No i In Apple. It’s a great reminder of the difference between “i” and “we”. The paragraph that nails this is:
“Reading through the many compilation of Jobs’ quotes last night a similar theme emerges. When speaking of personal foibles or lessons learned he uses I and Me. But, when he speaks of the company he founded, was fired from and helped resuscitated to life he speaks in We and Us.”
If you are in the northeast US this weekend, be safe!
