Business Building

Value Beyond Instrumentalization — Letters to a Young Technologist

A business doesn't need a mission, a vision, a guiding light, or a north star to stay in business. It doesn't need AI or this framework or that tech stack. It doesn't need an investor, a board, or the backing of X, Y, or Z. It just needs to make more than it spends.

Jason Fried x.com

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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight • 8 highlights

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Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel

Sam Zell • 6 highlights

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Fight bullshit and bureaucracy every time you see it and get other people to fight it too. Do not let the org chart get in the way of people working productively together.

-Sam Altman

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On the long game of developing CUDA: “I like hard things because it takes a long time to do. If it takes a long time to do, it takes a really resilient person to do it.”

AJ Asver x.com

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The Power of Defaults

Julian Lehr julian.digital

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How to build a growth team – lessons from Uber, Hubspot, and others (50 slides) at andrewchen

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Jordan Bester

Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Stil…

Joe Coulombe goodreads.com

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