conviction

What are you obsessed with that others rarely talk about?

Lately, I’ve been somewhat obsessed with the idea of “conviction.” It’s such a cool concept because it’s the ultimate combination of heart and mind.

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... 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

Conviction is the rarest resource in the world.

Not money.

Not intelligence.

Not access.

Conviction.

I’ve met a lot of people who are very intelligent and have an awesome (in the literal sense) arsenal of skills and advantages at their disposal.

But that doesn’t make them dangerous, because they usually don’t know where to go with all of this. (In fact,

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