Founders: #238 Jay Z: Decoded

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What I learned from reading Decoded by Jay Z. ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com ---- [1:39] I would practice from the time I woke in the morning until I went to sleep [2:10] Even back then I though I was the best. [2:57] Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography (Founders #219) [4:32] Belief becomes before ability. [5:06] Michael Jordan: The Life (Founders #212) [5:46] The public praises people for what they practice in private. [7:28] Lock yourself in a room doing five beats a day for three summers. [7:50] Sam Walton: Made In America (Founders #234) [9:50] He was disappointed in the world, so he built one of his own — from Steven Spielberg: A Biography (Founders #209) [12:47] The Pmarca Blog Archive Ebook by Marc Andreessen (Founders #50) [13:35] I'm not gonna say that I thought I could get rich from rap, but I could clearly see that it was gonna get bigger before it went away. Way bigger. [21:10] Over 20 years into his career and dude ain’t changed. He’s got his own vibe. You gotta love him for that. (Rick Rubin) [21:41] Against The Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson (Founders #200) [25:27] I believe you can speak things int

[00:00:00] It was the 70s, and heroin was still heavy in the hood. Unpredictability was one of the things that we counted on. Like the day when I wandered up to something I'd never seen before. A cipher. But I wouldn't have called it that. No one would have back then. I shouldered my way through the crowd towards the middle. It felt like gravity pulling me into that swirl of kids. [00:00:22] No bullshit. Like a planet being pulled into orbit by a star. His name was Slate, and he was a kid I used to see around the neighborhood. An older kid who had barely made an impression on me. In that…

Founders: #238 Jay Z: Decoded

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