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'We wrote long and published short and by doing that Joan learned to write,' Talmey told the New York Times. ... 'It was at Vogue that I learned a kind of ease with words, a way of regarding words not as mirrors of my own inadequacy but as tools, toys, weapons to be deployed strategically on a page.'"

Today, if Varoufakis is to be believed, we are up against powerful feudal lords of big tech companies and corporations who have decoupled power from capital; they control not only the factories and farms, but the means to transfer money, and they mediate your access to the rest of humanity. They can de-platform you. They can de-bank you. UnitedHeal... See more

"Envy is inversely correlated with self-examination. The less you know yourself, the more you look to others to get an idea of your worth. But the more you delve into who you are, the less you seek from others, and the dissolution of envy begins."

VC is a Power Law business which means only a few cos deliver most of the returns - David Clark from VenCap breaks it down with data on 11.350 companies from 259 funds from 1986 - 2018. Only 1.1% out of 11,350 cos returned the whole fund!

David Clark responded to my tweet that median fund size for fund returners was $350M and many funds >$1b

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The sociobiologist E. O. Wilson said we are the only one of nine tribal species that believes an enemy is necessary for the tribe to survive, and where no natural enemy exists, we create one. Wilson said if we do not get ahold of that, we lose the species and the planet as we know it.

20 years from now, the only people who will remember that you worked late are your kids.

Mental Model of the Week

V2 | Chemistry | Alloying

Alloying is the art of mixing elements to create something greater than the sum of its parts. While our intuition tells us that pure substances are best, alloying shows this is not always true. One plus one can equal ten. By blending ingredients in precise proportions, metallurgists can create mate... See more

I won’t say who because I didn’t check on the publishing front when we were chatting, but by their own empirical evidence, a Lemaire bomber jacket won’t get you into Berghain but a Bottega (unbranded, unmarked) one will.

Never "Multiply by Zero"

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I feel like every day in the news we see people who seem to "have it all" (think of professional athletes for instance) who are caught illegally gambling, drunk driving, high-speed racing, you name it. In some cases, these can be immediately and completely career-ending mistakes. We often wonder how someone who seemingly "... See more