Randy’s Blog

You Can Just Do Things

You don’t need permission. You don’t need a credential. You can just do things. Here are six truths every visionary entrepreneur should know about embracing your weirdness, creating value, and questioning the advice that keeps you playing small.

They Didn’t Fail from Laziness

Hard work won’t save a business built in the wrong order. Discover the six decisions in the Go-to-Market Order of Operations and why your revenue problem might be a step-one problem you’ve been treating as a step-six problem for years.

I’m Sorry, Who Are You Again?

A strong point of view does more than get attention. It transmits Signal, tells the right people what problem you solve, and builds Market Gravity so business comes to you.

Build a Better Mousetrap and Stay Broke

You don’t need a better mousetrap. You need a Signal the market can’t ignore and a self-identity strong enough to carry it. When your message finally matches your value, you stop competing in a crowded category and become the category.

Please Be More Selfish

believe selfishness is your moral prerogative. Not just your prerogative, but your sacred responsibility. But if you’re like most people, the word itself makes you feel guilty. Ayn Rand wrote a collection of essays in a book titled, The Virtue of Selfishness. When asked why she chose to use a word that threatened so many people, she replied, “For the reason that makes you afraid of it.” It’s been more than 50 years since then, but people still react the same way.

Controlling Your Circumstances

As you begin another week full of potential and possibilities, please be mindful of what is happening around you, but most importantly, how you allow that to impact you.

Stop Following Terrible Advice

Aloha from Hawai'i! When I wrote the essay two weeks ago about The Power of the Pause, I paused halfway through and booked a getaway to follow my own advice. If you're new here, each week I send a postcard to you with a question, topic, or challenge to contemplate. This week let’s talk about crappy advice.

Turning It On…

Fighting a Force You Cannot Defeat

Welcome to another issue of Friday Filosophy, my weekly postcard to you with a question, topic, or challenge to contemplate. This week let’s talk about what to do when you're facing a force so powerful that it cannot be beat and can't even be controlled.