shifting perspectives

Poetry is the art of proving that a few words

are worth more than a thousand pictures.

Intelligence is not central to the success of most life on Earth. Consider the grasses: they’ve flourished across incredibly diverse global environments, without planning or debating a single step. Planarian worms regrow any part of their body and are functionally immortal, a trick we can manage only in science fiction. And a microscopic virus... See more

Outcomes are what count; don’t let good process excuse bad results.

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... See more

How to have more meaningful conversations. The Rose-Bud-Thorn Framework: