by Alex vonAllmen | Jan 27, 2026 | blog
John Willard Marriott https://upnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/John-Willard-Marriott.mp3 Willard Marriott’s story is a classic American example of persistence, reinvention, and learning from failure. Long before his name became synonymous with one of the world’s...
by Alex vonAllmen | Jan 27, 2026 | blog
Malcolm's Rules for Mastery https://upnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Malcolms-Rules-for-Mastery.mp3 Malcolm Gladwell’s popularization of the 10,000-hour rule in Outliers gave people a simple but powerful way to think about mastery. The idea is...
by Alex vonAllmen | Jan 27, 2026 | blog
Growing Pineapples https://upnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Growing-Pineapples.mp3 Growing a pineapple is a quiet lesson in patience and delayed gratification. Unlike many fruits that reward effort within a single season, pineapples move at their own pace. From...
by Alex vonAllmen | Jan 27, 2026 | blog
Dutch Tulip Mania of 1630's https://upnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Dutch-Tulip-Mania-of-1630s.mp3 The Dutch tulip mania of the 1630s is often cited as one of the earliest and most famous speculative bubbles in history. It is remembered not because tulips...
by Alex vonAllmen | Jan 27, 2026 | blog
Calculating Projected Subscription Revenue https://upnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Calculating-Projected-Subscription-Revenue.mp3 In subscription-based businesses, one of the most powerful insights comes from a surprisingly simple approximation: you can...
by Alex vonAllmen | Jan 27, 2026 | blog
The Power of Habits https://upnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Power-of-Habit-2.mp3 Charles Duhigg’s work on habits, most notably in The Power of Habit, helped popularize a simple but powerful idea: habits are not random. They follow a structure, and because they...
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