Max Beauroyre
@maxbeauroyre
Max Beauroyre
I’ve finally realized why I’ve never been a fan of focusing just on productivity without focusing on other things as well.
Productivity is a natural outcome that happens when you have a deep purpose. When you have a deep purpose, you naturally come up with clear priorities to work on.
When you have a deep purpose and clear priorities, you become
... See moreWrite out your reasoning. Like Bezos, Huang reasons with writing, not spreadsheets. While he trusts his intuition to guide him toward a potential decision, to reach confidence, he or his team must reason through it. Spreadsheets are ill-equipped for the kind of thinking Huang values here. “I hate spreadsheets because you can make spreadsheets do... See more
that a person like her could even exist was enough to make me feel that the world was a good place.
For someone to be successful in starting a company and then turning it into a multigenerational business, they need to have good taste in at least these two things: ideas to pursue and people to recruit.
good artists copy, great artists steal
I’ve started to think about the idea of the trophy job — a job that people covet for its status more than its substance.
Anu • Trophy Jobs
"Seeing is Believing as a Potential Entrepreneur" -
@davidcummings
I credit a lot of my self-belief with having worked in startups before making the jump to my own.
Direct exposure to other founders/operators dispels the myths of going from 0 to 1 or 1 to 10.
@davidcummings
I credit a lot of my self-belief with having worked in startups before making the jump to my own.
Direct exposure to other founders/operators dispels the myths of going from 0 to 1 or 1 to 10.
75 percent [of our] acquisitions come from approaching celebrities, politicians, athletes, the “celebrity adjacent,” etc. That way, we can control the content…. We are approaching authors and celebrities and politicians and athletes for ideas. So it’s really we are on the look out. We are scouts in a lot of ways…
From chatbot to agent-coworker
What could ambitious unhobbling over the coming years look like? The way I think about it, there are three key ingredients:
1. Solving the “onboarding problem”
GPT-4 has the raw smarts to do a decent chunk of many people’s jobs, but it’s sort of like a smart new hire that just showed up 5 minutes ago: it doesn’t have... See more
What could ambitious unhobbling over the coming years look like? The way I think about it, there are three key ingredients:
1. Solving the “onboarding problem”
GPT-4 has the raw smarts to do a decent chunk of many people’s jobs, but it’s sort of like a smart new hire that just showed up 5 minutes ago: it doesn’t have... See more