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A sparking curious mind
Claudiu
@claudiu
A sparking curious mind
In 1993, Jensen Huang pitched a startup idea to his former boss, Wilf Corrigan. After Jensen’s pitch, Wilf said, “I have no idea what you just said. That was one of the worst pitches I’ve ever heard.” Wilf then called the renowned venture capitalist Don Valentine, and said, “Don, I’m going to send a kid over to you. He’s one of the best employees
... See moreYour strategy is the long-lasting way you’re investing in reaching that goal. Your strategy sits above the tactics. A strategy might be to earn trust and attention. A strategy might be to be seen as the best and maybe only alternative. A strategy might be to have alliances and partnerships that enable you and your message to reach exactly the right
... See morePutting both hospitality and excellence on our list was a way of recognizing that success was going to come from approaching the problem of hospitality vs. excellence in the most difficult way possible: in order to succeed, we needed to be good at both. This wasn’t an either/or—it was an and. Later, I would learn that the management guru Roger
... See moreOf all his provocative ideas, the one that lingers with me most is his argument that while “resilience” is celebrated, it’s often a dead end in practice. He’s urged me to reframe resilience itself as desire. “We’ve glorified resilience as this virtue,” he told me. “Bounce back, return to normal, weather the storm. But the literal definition of resilience is the ability of a system to return to its original baseline after being disturbed.” He continues:
Key quote: “That’s fine if you’re a rubber band. But in nature — and in human systems — survival doesn’t come from returning to where you were. It comes from becoming something you weren’t before. The most enduring systems — biological, social, or economic — don’t revert. They evolve. Resilience is static. It’s about homeostasis. Evolution is dynamic. It’s driven by dissonance, by collapse, by moments of rupture that force entirely new structures of being to emerge.”
“Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an
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