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- Dara on X: "The most controversial VC on Twitter: Delian Asparouhov (@zebulgar) - Partner & Village Idiot at @foundersfund The guy who: • Spent 7 years trolling Benchmark until they finally responded • Says he’d “rather jump out the window” than invest in AI • Fought the FAA so hard he https://t.co/PPUGDracgi" / X1 savers
- Made for the Moment - by Reggie James2 savers
- PBS - JOHN GARDNER - EDUCATION AND EXCELLENCE9 savers
- Altos Ventures3 savers
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- Michael Dempsey on X: "The Luxury of Knowing We notice when we don't belong. We often don’t fully notice when we do. This happens everywhere, but especially in tech, where the systems are remarkably good at pulling people in and the groupthink is even better at keeping them there. You can spend https://t.co/1ecOVQfxjz" / X1 savers
- The mystery of the miracle year - by Dwarkesh Patel1 savers
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MARKETING IS NOT THE MOMENT, IT IS ATTEMPTING TO LAY NARRATIVE TOWARDS A POTENTIAL MOMENT
Made for the Moment - by Reggie James"Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let i…
PBS - JOHN GARDNER - EDUCATION AND EXCELLENCEAnother significant ingredient in motivation is one's attitude toward the future. Optimism is unfashionable today, particularly among intellectuals. Everyone makes fun of it. Someone said "Pessimists got that way by financing optimists." But I am not pessimistic and I advise you not to be. As the fellow said, "I'd be a pessimist but it would never work." I can tell you that for renewal, a tough-minded optimism is best. The future is not shaped by people who don't really believe in the future. Men and women of vitality have always been prepared to bet their futures, even their lives, on venture…
PBS - JOHN GARDNER - EDUCATION AND EXCELLENCEAs Robert Louis Stevenson said, "Old or young, we're on our last cruise." We want it to mean something.
PBS - JOHN GARDNER - EDUCATION AND EXCELLENCEOne of the enemies of sound, lifelong motivation is a rather childish conception we have of the kind of concrete, describable goal toward which all of our efforts drive us. We want to believe that there is a point at which we can feel that we have arrived. We want a scoring system that tells us when we've piled up enough points to count ourselves successful. So you scramble and sweat and climb to reach what you thought was the goal. When you get to the top you stand up and look around and chances are you feel a little empty. Maybe more than a little empty. You wonder whether you climbed the wr…
PBS - JOHN GARDNER - EDUCATION AND EXCELLENCELearn all your life. Learn from your failures. Learn from your successes, When you hit a spell of trouble, ask "What is it trying to teach me?" The lessons aren't always happy ones, but they keep coming. It isn't a bad idea to pause occasionally for an inward look. By midlife, most of us are accomplished fugitives from ourselves.
PBS - JOHN GARDNER - EDUCATION AND EXCELLENCESomeone said that "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." And above all don't imagine that the story is over. Life has a lot of chapters.
PBS - JOHN GARDNER - EDUCATION AND EXCELLENCEA famous French writer said "There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives."
PBS - JOHN GARDNER - EDUCATION AND EXCELLENCEOr maybe they just ran so hard for so long that somewhere along the line they forgot what it was they were running for.
PBS - JOHN GARDNER - EDUCATION AND EXCELLENCE"The barnacle" the author explained "is confronted with an existential decision about where it's going to live. Once it decides.. . it spends the rest of its life with its head cemented to a rock.." End of quote. For a good many of us, it comes to that.
PBS - JOHN GARDNER - EDUCATION AND EXCELLENCEThe most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter. If you know where the edges are, you're way better off than somebody that's got one that's five times as large but very fuzzy about the edges.
Altos VenturesIronically, the people who end up creating the blockbusters are usually unproven. They emerge from the fringes, and start small, in niche or overlooked markets. They take time to learn and iterate and burn little capital before turning profitable. They follow a slower, but lower-risk path. In our own portfolio, the companies which raised less funding not only performed better but had much lower failure rates.
Altos VenturesI’ve found it helpful to think about chapters instead of the entire book of life. Find fulfillment in this chapter, knowing you might need to find it again later. The impermanence creates freedom where permanence creates pressure.
Michael Dempsey on X: "The Luxury of Knowing We notice when we don't belong. We often don’t fully notice when we do. This happens everywhere, but especially in tech, where the systems are remarkably good at pulling people in and the groupthink is even better at keeping them there. You can spend https://t.co/1ecOVQfxjz" / XAn interesting pattern recurs across the careers of great scientists: an annus mirabilis (miracle year) in which they make multiple, seemingly independent breakthroughs in the span of a single year or two.
The mystery of the miracle year - by Dwarkesh Patel