Matthew Giampetroni
@matthewgiampetroni
Venture Capitalist at Velvet Sea Ventures
Matthew Giampetroni
the second goal of the Attention Diet is to find highly nutritious sources of information and relationships and then build our lives around them
Mark Manson • How to Improve Your Focus and Concentration
You can’t charge a premium price for giving people what they expect, and you won’t ever have break-out products that way—the kinds of products that people line up around the block for.
Suzy Wetlaufer • The Perfect Paradox of Star Brands: An Interview with Bernard Arnault of LVMH
Execution at each core inflection point of a business enables continual narrative growth, and pseudosecret belief vs. erosion and doubt because in the end, narratives and pseudosecrets only accrue value to their relevant companies if they eventually become truths.
Michael Dempsey • Narratives & Pseudosecrets
That's the real point of startups. Ideally, you are getting together with a group of other people who also want to work a lot harder, and get paid a lot more, than they would in a big company.
Paul Graham • How to Make Wealth
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.
Harry Frankfurt • On Bullshit
Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles
Tobias Huberdeliverypdf.ssrn.com
If you can't measure the value of the work done by individual employees, you can get close. You can measure the value of the work done by small groups.