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There’s a quote from author Robert Brault that I think about often:
“We are kept from our goals not by obstacles but by a clear path to lesser goals.”
Sahil Bloom's Curiosity Chronicle • The Hard-Earned Win: Avoiding the Easy Path
Perhaps grief can be seen as a kind of exalted state where the person who is grieving is the closest they will ever be to the fundamental essence of things. Because, in grief, you become deeply acquainted with the idea of human mortality. You go to a very dark place and experience the extremities of your own pain — you are taken to the very limits
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Calvin calls this a “counterpositioning philosophy. If everyone is shifting their marketing to AI, think about the things that are going to stand out, the things that can’t be done with AI.”
Packy McCormick • Ramp at $1 Billion
1. Make requirements less dumb, 2. Delete the part or process, 3. Simplify and optimize, 4. Accelerate cycle time, and 5. Automate
Packy McCormick • Ramp at $1 Billion
Carlo Rovelli, in The Order of Time , goes even further. He argues that time as we experience it is not fundamental to the universe's structure; it emerges from more basic physical processes and our particular perspective as observers within the system. “The idea that a well-defined now exists throughout the universe is an illusion,” he writes, “an... See more
Packy McCormick • Ramp at $1 Billion
“One of the reasons the tech industry is so creatively bankrupt is that people just focus on attributes you can measure,” said Jony Ive,
The New World: Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream
Asked what he made of the scene at Trump’s second inauguration, he smirked. “That weekend I spoke with my brother several times, and we reminisced about all the people who made his life and our family’s lives miserable for four years, and were all there celebrating now as if they had won the election themselves,” he said. “The world is very
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While Thrive partners say they based their decision on whether they believed e-commerce would grow over the next decade, and whether Stripe could capture more than its 2% global market share, other investors got lost in the weeds of that year’s growth rate and margins. “They were so stuck on trying to get the 2023 number right,”
The New World: Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream
A great technology company should have proprietary technology an order of magnitude better than its nearest substitute.