“Feedback is a gift.” — Tobi Lütke Tobi Lütke (@tobi) is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Shopify. In 2004, Tobi began building software to launch an online snowboard store called Snowdevil. It quickly became obvious that the software was more valuable than the snowboards, so Tobi and his founding team launched the Shopify platform in 2006. He has served as CEO since 2008 at the company’s headquarters in Ottawa, Canada. Tobi is an active advocate for computer literacy and education, and serves as a board member of Canada Learning Code, an organization working to give all Canadians access to digital skills. In 2014, Tobi was named The Globe and Mail‘s CEO of the Year. He served as Chair of the Digital Industries Table, an advisory board commissioned by the federal government to provide recommendations on how to turn Canada into a digital leader. Please enjoy! Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, Castbox, or on your favorite podcast platform. #359: Tobi Lütke — The Oracle of Ottawa https://rss.art19.com/episodes/b4c1d67d-0bb9-47bf-b4a7-2324447e17bd.mp3Download Listen to it on Apple Podcasts. Stream by clicking here. Download as an MP3 by right-clicking here and choosing “save as.” Want to hear the story of a [...]
“I’m just so fundamentally optimistic, and I barrel forth in life with this attitude that everything is going to be absolutely fine and go my way.”
— Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer ( [...]
“You can systematize innovation even if you can’t completely predict it.”
— Eric Schmidt
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“The biggest problem we run into is going, ‘This is who I am, this is what I’m like, this is how I function’ while failing to notice that you don’t do that anymore.” [...]
Note from the editor: The following is a guest post by Clive Thompson (@pomeranian99), a journalist who’s written about technology and science for two decades. Clive is a longtime contributing w [...]
“An overactive ego is a tyrant.” – Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan) is the author of seven previous books, including Cooked, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivor [...]
“All these things you’re sure are true — what if they weren’t?”
— Safi Bahcall
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Welcome to a special episode called “Tea Time with Tim,” for which I solicited phone numbers and then called a handful of you to field any questions you might have.
Among other topics, we [...]
“I felt like I went through 15 years of psychological therapy in one night.”
— Actual patient featured in “Trip of Compassion”
This post is about the most compelling movie I’ve seen [...]
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“Everyone’s genius is right next to their dysfunction.” — Graham Duncan
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“I’m not really a business author; I just happen to have used companies as the method to study human systems because there’s great data.” — Jim Collins
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“I really am a big believer in people’s creativity flourishing when they come at things from a different direction and see things in a different way.” — [...]
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“In life — from the simplest thing to the biggest thing — I want to be proud of what it is and stake my claim: ‘That’s mine and that’s how [...]
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“So often, when you see someone who’s really good at almost anything, it’s because they actually started out exactly the opposite — and then they cared so mu [...]
“You spend the first 20 years of being rich accumulating all of this stuff. And then you’ll spend the next 20 years trying to get out of one thing after another to simplify your life.̶ [...]
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The 25 items b [...]
“If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.” — Greg McKeown
Greg McKeown (@GregoryMcKeown) is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Essentialism: The Disciplined [...]
I’m often asked about how I approach New Year’s resolutions. The truth is that I no longer approach them at all, even though I did for decades. Why the change? I have found “past year reviews” [...]
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Patrick C [...]
“Unhappiness is at the root of more pain, I would suspect, than any ailment that falls in the ‘physical’ body. And to think that we have compounds that could play such an important r [...]
“And then I wake up at 7:00 a.m., and I roll over and look at my phone. And I have a notification from Shopify saying that I made my first sale for $149. And I let out this huge, orgasmic noise of r [...]
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“Recovery never stops. [...]
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Stan Grof (right) with the legendary Albert Hofmann (left), the first person to synthesize LSD.
“I realized people were not having LSD experiences; they were having experiences of themselves. Bu [...]
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 is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Shopify. In 2004, Tobi began building software to launch an online snowboard store called Snowdevil. It quickly became obvious that the software was more valuable than the snowboards, so Tobi and his founding team launched the Shopify platform in 2006. He has served as CEO since 2008 at the company’s headquarters in Ottawa, Canada. Tobi is an active advocate for computer literacy and education, and serves as a board member of Canada Learning Code, an organization working to give all Canadians access to digital skills. In 2014, Tobi was named The Globe and Mail‘s CEO of the Year. He served as Chair of the Digital Industries Table, an advisory board commissioned by the federal government to provide recommendations on how to turn Canada into a digital leader. Please enjoy! Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, Castbox, or on your favorite podcast platform. #359: Tobi Lütke — The Oracle of Ottawa https://rss.art19.com/episodes/b4c1d67d-0bb9-47bf-b4a7-2324447e17bd.mp3Download Listen to it on Apple Podcasts. Stream by clicking here. Download as an MP3 by right-clicking here and choosing “save as.” Want to hear the story of a [...]','https://passivecashclub.com/2019/02/08/tobi-lutke-the-oracle-of-ottawa-359/', 'https://passivecashclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/tobi_lutke_shopify-275x275.jpg');){kind=link}
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 is president and chief executive officer of Walmart, a company that, if it were a country, would be the 25th largest economy in the world. Walmart serves 265 million [...]','https://passivecashclub.com/2018/11/09/doug-mcmillon-ceo-of-walmart-345/', 'https://passivecashclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/heartland-1-275x275.jpg');){kind=link}
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