Thought provoking

If you go out and all you do is make the same mistakes that I could have gotten in some other company, then there's no ROI on this investment […] I can buy those mistakes somewhere else. I think that, in some ways, this pursuit of original mistakes is sort what one is doing as a startup founder in a constructive way, right? […] It's a huge red flag... See more

Michael Jordan left basketball to play baseball and it didn't go exactly as he had planned, there were a bunch of reasons why. And then the baseball strike happened and he starts playing with the Bulls again […] That to me is actually not a story about him getting back to the thing he was good at. It's a story about somebody who had the courage to ... See more

The world has become an infinite scroll of short-lived certainties. And time flicks through them increasingly faster.

And even if something new is on the horizon and feels a bit more like a lasting change, it’s usually something that makes everything else much more brittle, like AI, the climate crisis, or the so-called pre-war era we’re apparently ... See more

Cada noche en Omaha teníamos una cena, pero no una tradicional. En su lugar, tuvimos cenas del Jeffersonian. (Matt Stafford, a quien tuve el placer de conocer en una conferencia en Suiza, escribió un libro sobre las cenas Jeffersonianas y las ha convertido en una ciencia.

Thomas Jefferson organizaba este tipo de cenas en la Casa Blanca cuando era pr... See more

Endurance is a form of trust, in your capacity over time to absorb the stresses and extremes of the present. I say trust because the math in the moment may break: the opposition overwhelming, your resources faint. So you make eye contact with the enemy. You put down your spear. You turn your back and wait for the tension to break. The quality that ... See more

• What's relevant?

• What questions should we be asking?

• What's the most important thing?

• What would make you a little more uncomfortable?

• What would be your first move as CEO?

• What is the world telling you?

• How could you put yourself out of business?

• What should we start, stop, and continue?

• How much time have you thought about your team tod... See more

Fear is self-focused. Day to day, our fear is about us. What will happen if we give that speech, launch that project, get stuck in traffic, are eaten by an alligator...

And generosity is about others. “How can I help?”

Jumping in the water to save a struggling swimmer stops us from worrying about how we look in our suit or whether the water is cold. ... See more

I think one thing that is a really important thing to strive for is being internally driven, being driven to compete with yourself, not with other people. If you compete with other people, you end up in this mimetic trap, and you sort of play this tournament, and if you win, you lose. But if you’re competing with yourself, and all you’re trying to ... See more

99% of leaders ruin their companies with this irreversible mistake:

They stick to their guns.

Great companies recognize when change is necessary for survival.

They recognize when market conditions change and adapt accordingly.

They're willing to sacrifice short-term profits for long-term success.

But too many companies are set in their ways.

Not because ... See more