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“Climbing is simple. Ascent is an ideal. Doing becomes understanding. I think of route names as story titles: rich, fleeting and individual. We tell these stories over our modern-day campfires – blogs, Web sites, books and catalogs – in equal parts homage and interest. The depth of each story is proportionate to the protagonist’s [...] I love this quote…it is describes startup-ing and also reminds me of the modern day movie Gladiator. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in [...] These days, most of my riding buddies are a little burnt out on racing. After 4 or 5 years of spending a summer doing a race every other weekend or so, most of us have decided that this summer we just want to have fun riding. It’s not uncommon: bike racing is grueling. Of all [...] A student transcribed a recent Buffet talk, and it’s well worth reading, even by Buffet standards. Success is driven by vision and conviction and not by following directions. Contrary to our society’s romanticized vision of an entrepreneur’s life, success takes a long time to come (if it ever does). While there are famous counter-examples, in the overwhelming number of cases, success takes years and even decades of hard work. I post on this topic today because it’s a particularly important issue to me, because [...] |
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