Abhilash Rao
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Abhilash Rao
“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
Peter Thiel • Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
learning itself is best done slowly to accumulate lasting knowledge, even when that means performing poorly on tests of immediate progress. That is, the most effective learning looks inefficient; it looks like falling behind.
(Journalist) David Epstein • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Shane O Leary on LinkedIn: Being obsessed with the future is fine, as long as you obsessively learn… | 12 comments
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From a long lost strategic planning bible from 1974
Modern aspiration is not about having money to buy things, but having taste to know what to buy
andjelicaaa.substack.com • Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators
You can’t just shout your top ten features at people in a billboard and a website and packaging just like you can’t simply hand someone your résumé at an interview, then lunch, then on a date.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - The New York Times bestseller
When your back is against the wall, galvanise the team with an super goal
Benjamin Barber, an eminent political theorist, once said, “I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures. . . . I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.”
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
When you have a superpower, you receive tremendous praise that feeds your superpower. Your strengths create such an aura that your colleagues, your peers, and even your boss will look past any shortcomings or bad habits that need development.
They assume it’ll go away naturally or it’s erroneous or too inconsistent to raise the issue, even... See more
They assume it’ll go away naturally or it’s erroneous or too inconsistent to raise the issue, even... See more
Nikhyl Singhal • Open Doors in Your Career by Unlocking the Dark Side of Your Superpower
Our focused attention is critical to filling the well. We need to encounter our life experiences, not ignore them. Many of us read compulsively to screen our awareness. On a crowded (interesting) train, we train our attention on a newspaper, losing the sights and sounds around us—all images for the well.