Ajinkya Wadhwa

My goal when writing might be called saltintesta: the ideas leap into your head and you barely notice the words that got them there.

Step 2: Gather Courage by internalizing That the Mammoth Has a Low IQ

A five-person family is a mini giant. Now let’s imagine that each of those families is part of a small five-family community.

The fact that the best ideas seem like bad ideas makes it even harder to recognize the big winners. It means the probability of a startup making it really big is not merely not a constant fraction of the probability that it will succeed, but that the startups with a high probability of the former will seem to have a disproportionately low... See more

Then there’s Lulu. (Their daughter)

To explain what I mean here, we have to first delve into the difference between knowledge and understanding. On its surface, it may seem like a game of semantics, but if you explore this further, you’ll see that the nuances make all the difference.

When startups consume incumbents, they usually start by serving some small but important market that the big players ignore. 

Research suggests that married people are on average happier than single people and much happier than divorced people. But a closer analysis reveals that if you split up “married people” into two groups based on marriage quality, “people in self-assessed poor marriages are fairly miserable, and much less happy than unmarried people, and people in... See more