Jonathan Quaade
@jonathanquaade
Jonathan Quaade
@jonathanquaade
A big part of the Depth Year’s maturing process would be learning to live without regular doses of the little high we get when we start something new. If we indulge in it too often, we can develop a sort of “sweet tooth” for the feeling of newness itself. When newness is always available, it’s easier to seek more of it than to actually engage with
... See moreIt’s any time someone hesitates to make the thing they desperately want to make because they succumb to the avoidable things that kill creativity. There is never enough money or time. You will never feel you have enough knowledge. There are no perfect market conditions. Ideas never (read: shouldn’t) come with a guarantee of success. Just make the
... See moreIan Wharton.
Relates to Naviety, strike when iron is hot
e says the biggest mistake an investor can make is to sell a stock that goes on to rise tenfold not from owning something into bankruptcy but that's what everyone thinks at least judging by the questions that we get from our clients we got questions about our holding in Northwest Airlines rather than the sale of Apple earlier this year but selling
... See more"spend all your time on your single best idea" and people's biggest mistakes
My big mistake was not holding Amyris so bankrupcy.
It was selling Palantir when I knew it was a guaranteed success and holding it
It might have been buying more in Oscar instead of buying more in Lemonade and Hims
• Research culminates in some output . Research isn’t just about collecting references and evidence and the ideas of other people. It isn’t even about synthesizing them in an interesting way. Research is about advancing new arguments and ideas in some form—typically a conference presentation, paper, book, etc.
Embrace naivety / Talk at CSM split this up
This is also when the work is the most fun. How do you get young people to embrace naivety? Or how do I learn how to write better copy for websites? When the question becomes a box?