conviction
insightful ideas on the power and essence of conviction
conviction
If you know where you want to go in life, people tend to help or get out of the way. Both of those are useful.
on not living a paper-thin life
kindredspirits.substack.com
Anything is possible if approached with conviction.
Konosuke Matsushita (founder, Panasonic)
One of my (many) contrarian beliefs is that we do not have strong enough preferences. We often blame social media or the speed of information as the reason why we’re easily distracted, but the real reason behind our inability to focus has less to do with the sheer quantity of media and more to do with our laziness when it comes to distinguishing wh... See more
what is ine idea you’d defend like this?
Love this from Joshua Kushner’s interview on Patrick O’Shaughnessy‘s Invest like the Best:
Patrick: How do you balance or reconcile participating in a $2b round for stripe with a 2m check into a seed company?
Joshua: They are equally concentrated - not in magnitude of capital but in emotion... See more
Every day I talk to smart young people who want to work in tech or become founders. And I ask them a simple and obvious question—one that should be instinctual to answer. Not about their revenue goals or their product or how they’re going to scale a team from 5 to 50. But a more essential question: What do you believe? Why will people follow you? I... See more
Katherine Boyle • How to Win the Fight for America
on the importance of having high agency beliefs + conviction