Max Beauroyre

“In a decade, perhaps everyone on earth will be capable of accomplishing more than the most impactful person can today.”

Being “good at hiring” means either accurately betting on undiscovered talent or being good at persuading obvious talent.

“Creativity is about connections, and connections are not made by siloing everything off into its own space. New ideas are formed by interesting juxtapositions, and interesting juxtapositions happen when things are out of place.”

To find some of the most effective people that others may not know about, I make sure to leverage my network. Before hiring for a new role, I ask people who they consider to be the top 1% of performers for a certain function. I then reach out to the people who were recommended to me for calibration meetings, but my secret goal is to actually hire... See more

The homogeneity of these spaces means that traveling between them is frictionless, a value that Silicon Valley prizes and cultural influencers like Schwarzmann take advantage of. Changing places can be as painless as reloading a website. You might not even realize you’re not where you started.

More beauty and craft,

less factory line

More weird and rebellious,

less safe and derivative

More really hard inspired work,

less status games

More authentic expression of self,

less patagonia vest

Do less, then obsess.

I paid attention to things I liked to do, and found ways to do more of that. I made it easy for interesting people to find me, and then I hung out with them. We did projects together.

I kept iterating—paying attention to the context, removing things that frustrated me, and expanding things that made me feel alive.

Eventually, I looked up and noticed... See more