great speeches
a collection of wonderful speeches (many of them commencement speeches)
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great speeches
Love this speech by Bill Gurley - one of the common things across top professionals like Bob Dylan, Danny Meyer, etc was that they studied everything they could find about their field, they were masterful students first.
memos
interesting memos written for an internal audience - a company, a campaign, an organization - that shed light on how people really think inside institutions.
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From JK Rowlings' 2008 Harvard speech, this line:
“There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
University of Texas at Austin 2014 Commencement Address - Admiral William H. McRaven
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And I want to acknowledge my context, my immigrant parents, my father who fell in love with movies because he needed to