#thingsfound

[mbfrezon]

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Also found, didn't know it was lost...

Mom found this on the way to getting her St Patrick’s Day door decoration out. She figures it was something done for my home ec class which puts it into the – uh – old category. The cardboard used for this booklet, held together with two blue bread twist ties, is not quite legal size and in fact was what came from the laundry, supporting my father’s freshly cleaned, starched and ironed white work shirts. It was white on one side and grey on the other.

[somepinkflowers]

{{ #thingsfound 🌸 #morningwalk #nothingisordinary 💕 }} #somepinkflowers 🌸 Corneal abrasion 😱 in my GoodEye 👁 but #foundtreasures still call my name & shine ✨& are easily spotted. 🌳🌳🌳🌲🌳🌳🌲 ((From the teeth in the jaw*bone I deduce it’s from a cat.🙁 I have found these before. 🙀 )) 👉🏽The wee dried mushrooms tho. 🍄💕 #simplepleasures 🌸 (at Saint Augustine, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjabVM5uis2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[tommjohnson]

A Staples Graveyard #thingsfound #things #abstract #pittsburgh #shadyside #random (at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

[essgeewhy]

Things found at the park... #durandeastmanpark #thingsfound #paintedrocks #paintedrocksofinstagram #fairyhouse (at Durand Eastman Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEecMZvhqy8/?igshid=zy9q9mu6gj2p

[keithdotson]

Oo. #thingsfound #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhitephoto #bnw #bnw_photography #bnw_planet #bnwmood #bnw_captures #monochrome #monochromephotography #tennessee #millstone

[joearf]

2019.02.27: found things #foundthings #thingsfound https://www.instagram.com/p/BuccZa9Ffff/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1o9vbno3jk517

[egoloquar]

These are things I found that made my eyes happy

That fruit is called a Kiwano (horned melon) and tastes between a cucumber, melon and kiwi. Wasn’t a major fan

[theartifactarchive]

#thingsfound : #wisteria blooming for the first time on sections of my former public art project

[succulentarboretum]

cement coiling

[danno-matic]

Things Found. I used to work at Disney World selling popcorn and ice cream when I was a teenager. I recently found this napkin sketch while doing a purge, apparently done by a coworker, depicting the daily frustration of an inadequate cash drawer. Let it be known that I never pulled a gun on a guest and the depiction is entirely that of the long forgotten artist's imagination. #thingsfound #cartoon #frustration #napkinsketch #nostalgia #foodservice #disneyworld (at Disney's Hollywood Studios)

[debartch]

Lovely instructions inside of some photo gear box 😍 - Closeup of text over at @debartch. - #box #writing #stenography #photography #Rollex #filmholder #VintageCamera #VintageCameraAccessories #hiddennotes #RollexManual #secrets #cameras #photographyhistory #thingsfound #FilmIsNotDead

[bthevibe-blog]

Found this message rock while taking in breathtaking ocean views today in Matunuck RI #thingsfound #bethevibe #bthevibe #matunuckri #matunuck #eastmatunuckstatebeach #tumbledbeachstones #ocean #lowtide #sunshine (at East Matunuck State Beach)

[somepinkflowers]

{{ #thingsfound #morningnaturewalk 🌸 #natureappreciation 💕 #artinspiration 🌸 }} #somepinkflowers 🌸 #colors #shapes #textures 💕💕💕 The green pear-like #fruits 🍐are #creepingfig #climbingcreepingfig which I would NOT eat but lovely to find. 💚 #ficuspumila … #fallinflorida is when these fall from the trees over my head as I walk thru my hood. 💚 Squirrels 🐿 are getting winter*fat on the hickory nuts so empty shells are falling now, too. My studio #naturetable is full.💚 #ilovenature 💚💚🐿 (at St. Augustine, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVXq2PHrJ_U/?utm_medium=tumblr

[anne-m-bray]

Speaking of Barbie, I found her head in a bag this AM. It was in my box of glitter paints. Hello 1992. Now I have glitter all over my hands. I call that "the kiss of Barbie". #thingsfound

[essgeewhy]

A few more odd things found in the park. #durandeastmanpark #thingsfound #creepy (at Durand Eastman Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_XtHQeB1cc/?igshid=716pwgsp8myr

[topicprinter]

I wanted to share a post I recently wrote about entrepreneurship through the lens of uncertainty, and how to use that framework to execute better day-to-day on seemingly impossible ideas. (I'm the co-founder of a venture-backed tech startup and draw a lot of this from my personal experience, though I have tried to keep it more theoretical.) X-posted from r/startups.What's different about entrepreneursThere's no doubt they are a little bit crazy. And when I say that, I don’t mean they are obsessive workaholics; you’ll find people like that in any type of job, and it’s certainly not unique to entrepreneurs.What I mean instead is that they have a unique relationship with reality. Entrepreneurship is defined by risk. Founders are risk-takers who put their financial security, their careers, and their reputations on the line in pursuit of something as insubstantial as an idea.Admit it — you’ve had a moment where you looked at this behavior from the outside and thought it was a little bit insane. I know I’ve had mine. In the summer of 2008 when I was working as a webmaster at Google, a guy named Joe Gebbia reached out to me looking to recruit a web developer for a startup he was building called AirBed&Breakfast.It pains me to admit that the first thing that went through my head was these guys are crazy. Who would pay to stay on someone else’s couch? Who wants to give strangers access to their home? I sat there and thought of a million reasons their idea wouldn’t work, and shot back a cordial email stating that I was happy with my job at Google.I think about this experience whenever I’m in a position to evaluate whether or not an idea is good or even possible. When the odds of success seem far-fetched but are impossible to know, you have a choice. You can approach it negatively (it’s impossible), or constructively (what needs to be done to understand if this is possible?). I now understand that the former is more practical, while the latter is more entrepreneurial.Airbnb is an outlier in many ways—recently valued at $31 billion— but this irrational pursuit of an idea that no one else believes is possible is a perfect example of entrepreneurial insanity. What Joe and his co-founders were doing was so big and so different it was almost impossible to imagine it could work.It’s not risk tolerance, it’s uncertainty toleranceLet’s take a brief detour to discuss risk. There are three types that are relevant in this context (via Wikipedia):Risk, which is measurable statistically (such as the probability of drawing a red color ball from a jar containing 5 red balls and 5 white balls)Ambiguity, which is hard to measure statistically (such as the probability of drawing a red ball from a jar containing 5 red balls but an unknown number of white balls)True uncertainty or Knightian uncertainty, which is impossible to estimate or predict statistically (such as the probability of drawing a red ball from a jar whose contents are entirely unknown)Most entrepreneurship, and certainly the case of Airbnb, involves true uncertainty. While many successful businesspeople in organizations of all sizes are good risk-bearers, what is unique to entrepreneurs is their ability to be uncertainty-bearers. Not only are they willing to take risks, they are willing to take risks in the face of totally unknown and unpredictable outcomes.The most likely explanation for this is also the simplest: they just don’t believe that what they’re doing is actually that risky. That’s it. What if entrepreneurs aren’t really defined, as we may think, by long hours, obsession, or even genius? What if the most atomic piece of the entrepreneurial mindset is above-average tolerance of true uncertainty due to a lowered perception of risk?In short, they believe impossible things—that other people don’t.The daily practice of believing impossible thingsFounders are known for their big visions, for the wild and crazy ideas they chase that no one else will. But this is only one piece of the puzzle. What’s far more important is the daily practice of questioning the reality we perceive.It’s not enough to believe in your impossible idea. You must also believe in impossible execution. You must actively seek out the most audacious things you are capable of doing. Remember that your best opportunities are in the spaces other people have decided are impossible.Here’s the magic trick: instead of figuring out how to do the impossible, you instead focus on making impossible things merely uncertain. As you move forward and learn more, uncertainty will make way for ambiguity, and eventually risk.This is the process that makes a massive vision tractable.6 steps to doing something impossibleHave a seemingly impossible goal.Assume that is it in fact possible.Rule out the truly impossible (or highly improbable) ways forward—solutions that take infinite time, defy the laws of physics, etc.Find something to try that you have no idea if it will work—and then try it.Evaluate. Did it work? What did you learn?Repeat steps 4 & 5 until you have enough data to create a new statistical understanding of something that was previously uncertain.Once you have that statistical understanding, you should be in a workable position to make progress. This approach is particularly helpful for scaling things that “don’t scale” — if you know that your non-scaling solution is 100% effective, but you identity a solution that is 40% effective at 20X the scale, then it becomes a simple numbers game.Thinking about things this way is addictive. Where you may once have felt daunted, you start challenging yourself to think bigger. You develop a spidey sense for the in-roads that allow you to chip away at a big problem. You begin to think anything is possible.That said, it’s simply not the case that all crazy ideas are good ideas. If your idea is truly an uncertainty, then it’s impossible to know what your odds of success are. They could be zero. Your job is not to proceed on pure faith, but to proceed with the intention to transform your uncertainty to ambiguity. In other words, press on until you have enough data to make a probabilistic assessment of your odds of success.The thinking is magical, but the process is notI want to conclude with the most real truth I’ve learned since starting on this journey: starting a company takes real work. Contrary to popular startup narratives, nothing of real value is built overnight. It takes time and it takes blood, sweat and tears.The ability for a entrepreneur to be visionary is very important, but what’s equally as important is their ability to keep coming back to work.So take care of yourself. Take care of your loved ones. Work hard but sustainably. Take a vacation sometimes.And practice believing impossible things for 30 minutes every day.