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With really good product-market fit, you can run your company like California and still be successful.
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
– Albert Einstein https://t.co/R5pkknXyI6
Things that didn’t exist 25 years ago:
Tesla
SpaceX
iPhone
YouTube
X
Facebook
Gmail
Instagram
Bitcoin
Netflix streaming
WhatsApp
TikTok
LinkedIn
iPad
Snapchat
Amazon Prime
Skype
Reddit
Airbnb
Etsy
Lyft
Uber
Wikipedia
Pinterest
App Store
Spotify
Fitbit
emojis
Tinder
Stripe
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"What is important now is to realize that alcohol does pick you up, but only from how far it kicked you down, never up to where you were before you started drinking"
from This Naked Mind by Annie Grace
"You might presume, then, that this means our broader appetite for minerals is diminishing. Not a bit of it. For it turns out oil and other fossil fuels have only ever represented a fraction of the total mass of resources we’re extracting from the earth. For every tonne of fossil fuels, we exploit 6 tonnes of other materials – mostly sand and stone
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My notes from Anna Wintour’s biography turned into maxims:
1. Hire talented people as found, not as needed.
2. Taste is as rare as a unicorn.
3.Your employees should describe you as “easy to understand.”
4.Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that… Show more
Talk doesn’t cook rice.
