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Hot take: the most dangerous point in life is not the point of total failure but the point of moderate success. A failed man keeps throwing punches—his spirit is alive and kicking. But a moderately successful man is in the danger of trading potential glory for peaceful mediocrity
Try it yourself: Record a simple “Hey, my name is X and I’m recording my voice right now” on your phone twice — first with a straight face, then with a big smile. Listen to both recordings. The voice that comes through when you’re smiling is 10x better.
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"Phones mean that solitude is more crowded than it used to be, and crowds are more solitary. 'Bright lines once separated being alone and being in a crowd,' Nicholas Carr, the author of the new book Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, told me... Now our social time is haunted by the possibility that something more interesting ... See more
"Distribution is essential to the design of the product. If you invent something but you haven't invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business. Superior distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The converse is not true."
Julian Shapirox.comThiel did a fireside chat my freshman year (2014) of college where someone asked: “Could the next Zuckerberg be in this room?”
Thiel: “He would never show up to an event like this.”
ron bhattacharyayx.com“Mastery is the best goal because the rich can’t buy it, the impatient can’t rush it, the privileged can’t inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work. Mastery is the ultimate status.”
— David Sivers
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