Christian Baaki

Universities need new inter-disciplinary courses. For example, in March 2014 Stanford announced new undergraduate degrees such as Computer Science and English. It would be great if Oxford created alternatives to PPE such as ‘Ancient and Modern History, Maths for Presidents, and Coding‘. Instead of bluffing through essays on competing views of macro

He would again be as solitary as ever, and though he had great hopes, and great—too great—expectations from life, he could not have given any definite account of his hopes, his expectations, or even his desires.

Without a high-end market on which to sell, innovators would find less incentive to innovate: they wouldn’t earn a dime until the economy had advanced to a stage at which general provision of their new product was feasible.

The pianist whose fingers seem supernaturally nimble, the presenter whose message seems viscerally compelling, and the artist whose paintings seem impossibly realistic all wield the same magic: they’ve invested more time than you’d expect.

The quality of political Insiders and officials has collapsed as high talent has migrated (startups, hedge funds, mixes of maths and money etc).

My Chief of Staff started documenting every system without being asked. She created training videos for future team members we hadn't even hired yet. When I travel, things improve because she keeps finding better ways to run the business.

 

The cost of a micromanaged business is your freedom. The right hires should return this freedom to you.

“This boulevard is never much frequented; and now, at two o’clock, in the stifling heat, it was quite deserted.”