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Anxiety of incompetence: my skills are devalued and i have to learn new onesAnxiety of irrelevance: people might not relate to, value, or think about
Without personal moats, we may find ourselves in a perpetually evolving, seemingly more meritocratic game.
how will AI affect how ADs work? especially if we now have agents browsing the internet for us? how far away are we from that being the reality and t
We live in a culture that venerates productivity above all else. For centuries, success—particularly in the West—has hinged on a simple dictum: “Do mo
persistence Execution You can just do things
To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal— to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take
“My theory is that chasing things that scale makes you need therapy, and the therapy is pursuing things that can’t scale. The antidote to burnout and
The distortion is exacerbated by the fact that people building profitable companies outside the sphere of the VC dominion have little systemic need to
If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly inv
To win, a company needs to own either a client’s most important data or its most important workflow
“People early in their career should learn from computer science: meander some in your walk (especially early on), randomly drop yourself into new par
“There is a natural human tendency to make the next step an upward one. He ends up falling for a common trap highlighted by behavioral economists: peo
The Silicon Valley small business, the SV-SB, is a hybrid of sorts — it intertwines small business values and discipline with big tech know-how and am
most businesses don’t last forever, and they don’t need to.
I’m a fan of companies that operate like studios with the awareness that they’ll create a series of seasonal hits and try to capture value along the w
company-building cliches that are true (so true, it's tempting to overlook them.) 1/ high-performing people are very responsive 2/ feedback is a gif
There’s a reason why the most popular words in tech right now are acceleration, destruction, disruption. Have you figured out what they want to destro
He sees the hunger people have for a wisdom and nourishing that algorithms and devices don’t provide—but the humanities can. This is the real crisis i
Here are eight imperatives—all of them drawing strength and sustenance from the humanities:We need a way of defining and pursuing progress that doesn’