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Michael Tan

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  • SEVEN RULES FOR MAKING YOUR HOME LIFE HAPPIER Rule 1: Don’t nag. Rule 2: Don’t try to make your partner over. Rule 3: Don’t criticize. Rule 4: Give honest appreciation. Rule 5: Pay little attentions. Rule 6: Be courteous. Rule 7: Read a good book on the sexual side of marriage.
    In a Nutshell | How To Win Friends And Influence People
  • Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people, that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? “I will speak ill of no man,” he said, “… and speak all the good I know of everybody.” Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.
    “If You Want to Gather Honey, Don’t Kick Over the Beehive” | How To Win Friends And Influence People
  • Further, they too must be friends of one another, if they are all to spend their days together; and it is a hard business for this condition to be fulfilled with a large number. It is found difficult, too, to rejoice and to grieve in an intimate way with many people, for it may likely happen that one has at once to be happy with one friend and to mourn with another. Presumably, then, it is well not to seek to have as many friends as possible, but as many as are enough for the purpose of living together; for it would seem actually impossible to be a great friend to many people. This is why one …
    The Internet Classics Archive | Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
  • Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in virtue; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good themselves. Now those who wish well to their friends for their sake are most truly friends; for they do this by reason of own nature and not incidentally; therefore their friendship lasts as long as they are good-and goodness is an enduring thing. And each is good without qualification and to his friend, for the good are both good without qualification and useful to each other. So too they are pleasant; for the good are pleasant both without qualifi…
    The Internet Classics Archive | Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
  • A default conclusion is that successful RL environment startups will move building systems that reduce cost, increase reusability, and, through building 100s of RL environments, figure out automation in RL environment creation or some new insight about building verifiers more easily for strictly non-verifiable outputs. Look for startups with unique takes and breakthroughs about doing this, and whose COGS are clearly decreasing over time.
    A World of Verifiable Domains
  • It's magic when you find a pull business. So I have a Post-it note on my computer in the office that says, "Is the market demanding more of your product?" It's the most special thing when it happens. By the way, a lot of these AI companies, what's so magical about the way ChatGPT has grown, it's a billion users, it's organic, it's all brand. And the shocking thing about that one, by the way, is it doesn't have a network effect. That was one of the more surprising things for us. So is the market demanding more of your product? Is probably the most important question that we can answer, because …
    Inside a16z Growth - Colossus
  • I like to look at history of consumer internet companies and what were our perceptions and then what actually ended up happening in reality. So, I think it's instructive to look back at Facebook and Google, and I remember when we were in the private markets looking at investments in things like Snap and Twitter 10 plus years ago, and we would always sit and say, well, yeah, but Facebook and Google only monetize at X certain amount, and all the consumer internet businesses are P x Q businesses. And quantity has ended up being billions of users, two and a half billion users or more in each case,…
    Inside a16z Growth - Colossus
  • First of all, what we look for founders, we also look for Sequoia partners, investors, young people. The same set of traits use the word insufferable, use the word he doesn't listen, she doesn't listen or he's belligerent, she's belligerent. Those that other people may view as a negative, we actually view as a positive because in order to get something done in life, you can't just walk down Main Street and be a sweetie pie. We look for outlier people, whether it's founders or investors, and outlier people do extraordinary things. Outliers. What do I mean by that? Extra-driven for whatever reas…
    Lessons from a Titan - Colossus