Ethan Anderson

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Impatience is an expensive emotion.

Every app wants your decision in seconds. Every employer wants results this quarter. Every investment platform profits when you trade. Meanwhile, the boring investor who indexed and touched nothing decades ago owns your neighborhood. Who's winning?

The patient inherit everything the impatient leave behind.

words to live by

the goal of life is to be excited to go to work and excited to go home

Joshua Kushner x.com

business and

Than Average

thanaverage.xyz

philosophy and

Steve Jobs Once Spent Two Weeks Choosing A Washing Machine For His Palo Alto Home And He Got More 'Thrill' Out Of It Than Any Piece Of High Tech In Ages - Benzinga

Steve Jobs Once Spent Two Weeks Choosing A Washing Machine For His Palo Alto Home And He Got More 'Thrill' Out Of It Than Any Piece Of High Tech In Ages

design and details

focus

focus

The dinner party test

Elan Miller offmenu.substack.com

business and marketing

“Your product might be 10x better, but "better" is a logical argument. People make emotional decisions then rationalize with logic. Lead with features, and you're bringing a knife to a feelings fight.”

George Mack

x.com

words to live by

Option Rot

Willem Van Lancker terrain.com

focus and business

“This is the optionality mindset in action: the belief that the future belongs to the generalist, the jack-of-all-trades, the eternal dabbler. But it’s a lie. The future doesn’t belong to the generalist. It belongs to the obsessed.“