Eric Ries
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185 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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He was speaking to them as entrepreneurs, as a fellow entrepreneur, but inviting them to imagine this other side of entrepreneurship that they would never have thought of.
And that's why we wanted him to be there.
So yeah, I've always admired him as a communicator.
You have to give the communication the care that it deserves.
So the truth is definitely the first thing and most important thing.
And I think entrepreneurship, especially, but all forms of leadership, it is a truth-seeking profession at the end of the day, because we can't do anything if we're out of alignment with what reality makes possible.
But this second thing I was talking about is this idea of quality or craft.
Like I was talking about Yvon Chouinard, the absolutist about quality.
He used to say that quality was an objective function, which everyone thought was so crazy.
Maybe like every product has a quality that it deserves.
It's not in the eye of the beholder.
It's absolute.
I don't know if that's true for every product, but it's definitely true in communication.
If you're communicating something that is precious to you, then it deserves a certain level of craft and attention.
And the third thing is certainly authenticity.
that is every communication is actually very personal, whether you pretend it isn't or not.
And I feel like the way we teach writing, especially because we consume so much journalism and journalism is obsessed with the view from nowhere, where we're creating like a faux objectivity, it's just so fake.
It's just so hard to believe anybody who's trying to present themselves as objective.
It's so much better to root yourself in your actual experience.
And even if you're trying to be objective, to say so,
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