Max Beauroyre

The art of stillness can present itself as being quite paradoxical in nature as one might think it quite literally involves...doing nothing. But instead, it encourages us to create sacred spaces of silence that feed into the natural flow and currents of everyday life. Silence guides us to moments of stillness and with stillness comes clarity

It’s easy to get distracted in marketing. There are so many channels, so many ways to waste a lot of time (and money) being unproductive.

To avoid this, we break our work down by:

• Things we want to be great at (8/10 and above)


• Things we want to be good at (7/10 is enough)


• Things we might want to be good at (stuff we want to try)


• Things we don't want

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“You preach balance but never show receipts,” Claude pushed. And it was right.

I’ve written “Have Kids” and “False Dichotomies” - philosophical pieces about how you can have both ambition and family. But I’ve never documented the actual costs:

• The specific deals I passed on, with names and valuations


• The actual equity I walked away from when leaving

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There is a potentially important source of variance for all of this: we’re running out of internet data. That could mean that, very soon, the naive approach to pretraining larger language models on more scraped data could start hitting serious bottlenecks.

Wisdom operates as a meta-layer above conventional knowledge. While information tells us "what is" and knowledge explains "how things work," wisdom addresses the profound question of "what matters and why."

It was the same rule Lemann had imposed at Garantia, where children and spouses of partners were forbidden from working at the bank.