Venkatesh Rao

1/ There's an old business parable originally published in 1916 called "Obvious Adams" I first read it maybe ten years ago and a couple times every year, I think back and realize the wisdom of it.pic.twitter.com/DAf3bdOc7q

3/ When he wants to get a job in advertising, he walks into the office of an ad agency head and says "I have decided that I want to get into the advertising business and I thought the obvious thing to do was to come and tell you so." (Spoiler: he gets the job)pic.twitter.com/QiV1x30uXp

4/ His first job was working in the book keeping department and noticed a simple change would make the process more efficient. He did it. It reduced the amount of time his job took and error rate by 25%pic.twitter.com/TAatlIi56v