A former professional tennis player explains why he would rather recruit athletes, and it has nothing to do with fitness. Nicolas Laverde competed nationally from childhood, and he traces his tolerance for calling somebody twenty times and for being rejected repeatedly back to a sport where losing is most of the week.
That background gives his posts on grit and persistence something most of them lack, which is an actual source. He treats a long effort as a marathon and says plainly which four kinds of people tend to make poor entrepreneurs.
His piece on serving others is the quiet centre. He defines humility as thinking about yourself less rather than thinking less of yourself, and builds outward from there to honesty and trust.
Practical posts cover email complaint rates, when publishing actually helps, and the difference between leading people and merely being in charge of them.
Read the athlete post, then the one on serving. Together they explain the whole blog.