Random
as Antonio Garcia Martinez more colorfully put it in an episode of Moment of Zen:
“Tell us what Bayes Theorem says about Israel vs Palestine. Tell us what Bayes Theorem says about how to be a good father. Tell us what Bayes Theorem says about what’s the meaning of life.”
Reason provides poor answers to these questions, and so trying to determine
... See moreSo sometimes, we quit. We quit the job thinking wrongly that the next company will be so much better. We quit the startup because it’s apparently not working. We just get tired, and why shouldn’t we be tired and why shouldn’t we quit? Life’s too short and all that.
But the ones who eventually succeed are the ones who plodded through the 5,999 filame... See more
But the ones who eventually succeed are the ones who plodded through the 5,999 filame... See more
Invention is Drudgery
If the world was full of probabilistic thinkers, no one would build the next SpaceX or Tesla. The best founders put it all on the line. You want to be a probabilistic thinker as an investor, but a deterministic thinker as an entrepreneur.
When everything is easy, nothing feels meaningful.
It's basic human psychology. We humans generally tend to value what we struggle to achieve. The pride of mastery, the satisfaction of growing our skills, and the sense of belonging to a skilled, like-minded community are powerful motivators which only are possible when there's something su
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“The richness and meaning arises in part from choosing it at the expense of all other places you could be and things you could be doing. Accepting a place’s shortcomings, the things it lacks, and its imperfections is essential to appreciating everything it does have to offer.”
