conviction

the most important goal is to not get lost

In a controversial speech by Lee Kuan Yew who served as the Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 – 1990, he has a really great line about conviction: “I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind, an inability to chart a course. Whichever way the wind blows. Whichever way the media encourages the pe... See more

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 emotional commitment to concentration. We don’t do a lot but wh... See more

“I believe that the best magazine articles have at least two—and better if three—elements to them: access, narrative, and disclosure. That is: on-the-ground reporting; a story arc with a beginning, middle, and end; and revelations that move the scholarship forward. A great magazine article must also always have at its core a measure of conflict. We... See more

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.