drink from different fountains
most stuff out there and online is junk and you know. also add another collection for reading and exploring concepts for longer than a single article or video
drink from different fountains
don't spend any time worrying about what other investors do I spent all my time studying great companies and studying great Industries if Nick and Zach were worried about what other investors were doing at this time they wouldn't be doing what they're doing they wouldn't have been buying Amazon they wouldn't have been talking about Costco
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
Li Lu & Nick Sleep
you have to be a learning machine you have to be doing the work now he he
referenced many times that it takes a long time now but it makes you go faster later on but that you'll study something he would study like an American company for like 15 years it would take him 15 years to find the Asian counterpart Nick is telling us something very similar
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First part is Li Lu
Is this what I've been doing? I've been preparing and learning constantly to get to this point. And that's the long term mindset combined with a single idea and the memory as a service. I want you to encourage and explore but also to learn so that when you're ready you'll have done all the preparation you need to seize the opportunity.
I think what’s important here too is that this isn’t about removing cultural nuance. It’s not about removing the richness of language or the richness of culture. It’s about kind of reorienting, I guess, our borders around things that aren’t violent. I mean, the current issue really is that, you know, culture and language are reinforcing a kind of v
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Return to first principles and act quickly on your new conclusions.
It’s very easy to take the world as it is, as opposed to envisioning it as you want it to be. For example, when re-designing a feature, one approach is to take what you have, and imagine small changes that will solve the problems with the feature. Instead, it’s often instructive t
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Peter Thiel
Take the time to listen to smart people with whom you disagree.
This is not easy to do. Over time, any firm will find that certain methods and biases tend to work very well, and the more successful it is, the more it will develop its own unique mindset. We couldn’t succeed without the methods and principles that we learn over time, nor can we cons
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Nirvana Fallacy: just because something has a flaw does not mean that its useless.
Sean • Knowing Things Is Hard
Vi Hart’s Internet Votes (written 2015, published 2017):
... See moreOn the internet, content rises to the top if it wins the popular vote. But unlike modern implementations of democracy, you get as many votes as you have time to give, all day every day, and most of those votes are taken by web companies without asking. And unlike the popular vote in democracy,
Sean • Knowing Things Is Hard
but why did you make it xyz“ because it’s fun, because I like it, because why not, because I can, because it doesn’t matter, because no one can tell me not to, because it felt right, because it makes me happy when I look at it, because i don't need a reason
I got really into a strange style of Twitter usage popularized by @visakanv and @Conaw. They would use Twitter as a sort of note-taking app or memex : weaving intricate webs of ideas, using Twitter’s quote-tweet and linking mechanisms for connecting related thoughts.