Max Beauroyre
@maxbeauroyre
Max Beauroyre
The ambution and aptitude of an exceptional founder
Philosophers David Hume and William James both understood the smallness of the individual human mind compared to the vast expanse of nature and society, and they emphasized the irrationalities of the human mind when facing the daily problems put before us. If we are building principles for politics, we need approaches which are relatively fortified
... See moreIf 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 investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a goo
the concept of debt or equity as an individual
The biggest blocker is demand gen
Find your concentric cirlces to grow your demand
Perhaps building personal moats requires two things
- Writing down how you approach things
- Slowing down to reflect on the aboveIn a kitchen, there’s nowhere to hide: raw ability and attitude eventually triumph.
Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."
