Max Beauroyre
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Max Beauroyre
If you were magically given 10,000 hours to be amazing at something, what would it be? The more clarity you have on this response, the better off you’ll be.
Erik Torenberg • Build Personal Moats
This is the litmus test for finding good quests. A quest is the journey, but first decide what flavor of journey you aim to keep consisten
Meter is building an internet utility by pursuing the Vertical Integrator strategy:
- Integrate multiple cutting-edge-but-proven technologies.
- Develop significant in-house capabilities across their stack.
- Modularize commoditized components while controlling overall system integration.
- Compete directly with incumbents.
- Offer integrated products that are be
Packy McCormick • Article
process
Outcomes
Craft
That’s a completely different definition of expertise.
Expectation:
Fear of machines becoming human
Reality:
We should worry more about humans becoming machines
Expectation:
Fear of machines becoming human
Reality:
We should worry more about humans becoming machines
Wouldn’t it be great if you could pay $9.99 a month and read all of the books you want? Just like you get all the movies you want from Netflix? Or all the music you want from Spotify?
Technically, it does exist. Kindle Unlimited is the largest, followed by Scribd. Audible isn’t quite all-access, but then Spotify got into audiobooks and made them so.... See more
Technically, it does exist. Kindle Unlimited is the largest, followed by Scribd. Audible isn’t quite all-access, but then Spotify got into audiobooks and made them so.... See more
In advanced human civilization, culture greatly increases the effectiveness of curiosity in advancing knowledge. For instance, Athens (including its colony, Alexandria) developed much math and science out of pure curiosity, while the Romans made almost no contribution to either math or science. They instead concentrated their attention on the "prac
... See moreOne corollary of inconsistency-avoidance tendency is that a person making big sacrifices in the course of assuming a new identity will intensify his devotion to the new identity. After all, it would be quite inconsistent behavior to make a large sacrifice for something that was no good. Thus civilization has invented many tough and solemn initiatio
... See moreThe ambution and aptitude of an exceptional founder
Most organizations cannot ship the most basic applications imaginable with any consistency, and you're out here saying that the best way to remain competitive is to roll out experimental technology that is an order of magnitude more sophisticated than anything else your I.T department runs, which you have no experience hiring for