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“A brand is a shared cultural belief about a company or product. It’s not just what I think about a brand that defines that brand to me. It’s also what I think other people think about that brand, and how they’ll judge me for buying it.”

"You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to me being vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose."

You have no idea how much life success comes from having the raw audacity to ask for things and just working with a diligent focus to be competent.

People inherently respect those traits so much that they feel a moral obligation to provide opportunities for you.

People with ADHD often experience temporal discounting, meaning our brain devalues rewards that are delayed vs those that are immediate.

This distorted perception can cause us to sabotage long-term goals for smaller but immediate results.

Birds are fed by their parents in their infancy. When the time comes to feed themselves, there can be some confusion when the food does not go into their mouth by itself.

and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?

- charles bukowski

People are so used to talking about minimum acceptable outcomes in education that they truly have no idea how high variance educational outcomes can/should be.

The top quartile of students can skip grades. The top 2% of students can do an entire multi year curriculum in *weeks*.

“Confidence comes from preparation.”

— Kobe Bryant

"No somos las mismas personas que el año pasado, tampoco lo son aquellos a los que amamos. Es extraordinario que, cambiando, podamos seguir amando a alguien que también cambió".

William Somerset Maugham

Being “good at hiring” means either accurately betting on undiscovered talent or being good at persuading obvious talent.