When you read a biography, everybody wants to know the beginning. There's always a part of the biography after they're super rich and famous and they're donating a bunch of money and I'm glad they're doing all that, that's fundamentally not interesting. How many people can relate to that? But everybody can relate to, hey, I have a dream. This is what I want my life to be. Life is going to throw up all these barriers, so how do I navigate that maze to actually get to where I'm going? Everybody can relate to that.
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It's taken me a long time to articulate that principle, a decade. And that's okay.
Like, don't get discouraged if you don't watch Brett Victor's talk and can't name your principle an hour later. Like it takes time, but you know, you found your principle when it starts informing literally every decision you make every day with your time. And
... See moreSecond and biggest thing is I took an idea from one of Rockefeller biographies So one of the things that I do that I also think is important is you read all the famous biographies but you got to go through the bibliographies Books are made out of books Everybody has read Titan by Ron Chernow In the bibliography of that, there's a better, the best
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