Passion & Pain
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Passion & Pain
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I don't think a lot of people realize that you can help engineer breakthroughs. I think that there's things in your life that you could do to, yeah, engineer breakthroughs. And I've been thinking about what that is. For me, it's been slow mornings. So I try my hardest to get up earlier than I actually have to because I like just to like walk
... See moreIt should be different and really hard, like really hard to do. And if I just, I'm sampling all the profiles we've written in my head, some of them are ridiculously hard to write.
Not only because of all the hours and work that has to go into it and the talent as a writer that has to go into it, but sometimes it's sensitive parts of the person's
... See moreWe're in New York right now. Some of my favorite people.
I like the PE guys way more than I like the VC guys because they're just more honest. They're like, you know, the PE guys are like, the VC gets, they have great lines about this. They go, VC gets all the attention, PE gets all the money. And then they're like, the VCs are lying
... See moreAnd finally, I just want to share two final ideas. I think these are two of the most important ideas in the book and two of the most important ideas that have come out of Larry Ellison's mouth.
Whenever I got too close to a goal, I'd raise the bar for fear of actually clearing it. We're endlessly curious about our own limits. The process of
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