There’s only one way to a 100x
The ground floor. If you want a 100x return on an investment, you need to get in early. Which means you need to take enormous risk. If you’re not willing
- August 29, 2025
- Alan Knott-Craig
There is no pleasure in hearing that you were right
So you can see an unhappy ending, so what? Why do you feel the need to tell everyone? If it comes true, someone is hurt, or some business has gone
- August 26, 2025
- Alan Knott-Craig
Focus on the point of maximum leverage
You have a choice: Spread your energies across all your tasks, or pick the task that will have the most impact and give it 100% of your energy. If
- August 25, 2025
- Alan Knott-Craig
Find what you don’t like
Your sweet spot is what you want to find. Sometimes the way you find it is a process of elimination. Sometimes fighting for something and losing is the best way
- August 24, 2025
- Alan Knott-Craig
Don’t stress over bad decisions
You started a business two years ago and it’s going nowhere. You joined a company two years ago and you’re not inspired anymore. You started working on a product two
- August 20, 2025
- Alan Knott-Craig
No such thing as a free pen
In business, you sometimes come across freebies. A free cap. Or free dinner. Or free flight. Or free pen. There is so such as a free pen. Everything comes with
- August 18, 2025
- Alan Knott-Craig
Anonymous social networks may be a solution to racism
Do we judge based upon skin colour? Are we judging form or substance? Do we ignore what a person looks like before judging him? Of course we do! The
- August 15, 2025
- Alan Knott-Craig
An army marches on its stomach
These were Napoleon’s famous words. First, make sure your soldiers are fed. Everything else is second. Same for your company. Make sure your staff are paid fairly. Everything else is
- August 13, 2025
- Alan Knott-Craig
Hold nothing back
Most times, you can avoid a fight. Better to mind your own business. But sometimes you have no choice. Sometimes you have to fight. When that time comes, don’t hold back. Don’t
- August 12, 2025
- Alan Knott-Craig
You’re not gonna feel great every day
Sometimes you’re going to be down. Doing work you don’t like, being sucked dry, feeling negative. That’s when you gotta fake it. No one can ever see you down. YOU
- August 11, 2025
- Alan Knott-Craig
Be indifferent to the opinions of others
Ignore the crowd. Ignore the pundits. Ignore the noise. If you must, politely listen to the opinion’s of others. Then forge ahead on the path of your own choosing. It’s
- August 9, 2025
- Alan Knott-Craig
Be yourself
Do you hesitate to let other people know you as you really are? Worried they’ll laugh? Think less of you? Lose a contract? Scare an investor? What’s