Max Beauroyre
@maxbeauroyre
Max Beauroyre
- company-building cliches that are true (so true, it's tempting to overlook them.) 1/ high-performing people are very responsive 2/ feedback is a gift 3/ the reward for good work is more work 4/ people don’t leave companies, they leave managers 5/ manage up, get face time 6/… Show more
- Being “good at hiring” means either accurately betting on undiscovered talent or being good at persuading obvious talent.
from X. It's what's happening
- Here’s a full list of the pillars I am exploring with my PHC:
- Content: creating and sharing content that offers new ideas and perspectives on life, work, and technology.
- Cash Cow: businesses that generate a steady flow of cash that can be reinvested across the PHC. Ideally, these businesses should be software-based that are acquired rather than st
from Personal Holding Company - Michael Karnjanaprakorn
If 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
- What I learned from reading “Situational Awareness” is that the next generation of privilege-blind Silicon Valley investors are even more out of touch than expected. It’s really sad and feels like a cosmic joke that the world’s most affluent class of people who legitimately have the resources to change the world for the better are living and thinki... See more
from The Rise of the AGI Profiteers
- I’m a fan of companies that operate like studios with the awareness that they’ll create a series of seasonal hits and try to capture value along the way. The assumption of seasonality could be wrong (and one or more of these hits endures much longer), but that ends up being a good problem to have.
from The Generational Business Trap by Anu
Reflections on Pedra & Felix
The faster you’re moving the more you’re in fear. The more you’re in fear, the more you’re thinking about yourself. The more you’re thinking about yourself, the less compassion and kindness you have for others.
from this Reel.
- He sees the hunger people have for a wisdom and nourishing that algorithms and devices don’t provide—but the humanities can. This is the real crisis in humanities, and it’s reached a boiling point.
I don’t travel as extensively as Dana, but I hear the exact same thing in my online dealings with people. They want something that the tech can’t provid... See morefrom The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College by Ted Gioia
- I’ve started to think about the idea of the trophy job — a job that people covet for its status more than its substance.
from Trophy Jobs by Anu