Vignette one hundred and eleven.

People Research Process
A property of defensibility in company creation
[Care]

Jony Ive, Apple
"Everything around us speaks to who made it. And, it speaks to whether they were pre-occupied and driven by price, and schedule, and opportunism.
Or, whether they were driven by care, and trying to make a product that would make our lives genuinely better. It's a succinct testimony. People perceive value beyond their ability to articulate why. If you ask somebody why they like something, I truly have found it has a relationship to the amount of care that was extended in its creation."

Michael Dempsey, Compound
"There are styles of founders that I believe, care.
I believe it's care, long term. How long have you been thinking about the thing you're thinking about, and how much have you stayed high conviction when it wasn't easy to do it?"

George Exley, PropertyCare
(my dad)
"Care about a person
before
you care for their property,
and
care about each employee
before
you start a landscaping company."

Vignette one hundred and ten.

The Long Game

→ Forever commitments

→ Future views -- consider implications approaching infinite timelines

→ Lifelong obsessions precede timeless creations

"The tenure of a CIO is correlated with investment success. League tables of allocators, ... almost always show that investment offices with the longest-standing CIO's deliver the best performance over the long term. Yale, MIT, and Princeton all had one thing in common: long-serving leadership." ~ Ted Seides, Capital Allocators

Vignette ninety-six.

See you for who you are

Understand your uniqueness

Whatever you do, do it in the shape of you.

["a silhouette"]

Vignette ninety-five.

Understanding the uniqueness of the individual

vs.

Pattern-matching the similarities of a group of people

I am devoted to the former: a practice of primary research studying uniqueness.

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