Mushroom
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Mushroom
“My deepest insecurity is that I have these intuitions about things that I cannot explain to anyone,” Kushner told Rubin as they sat in his garden overlooking the ocean. “Sometimes I see or experience something and it makes sense to me, I fall in love, but I cannot explain why. Like when Thrive invested in Instagram or Spotify or OpenAI. I could... See more
The New World: Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream
“Shortcuts will cut you short. There are no shortcuts in life.”
- Narendra Modi (PM of India, on Lex Fridman)
Sitting down to write in 2025 is its own kind of war with forces of distraction and click-to-buy shit at every turn.
Shakespeare and Jane Austen didn’t have to fight the itch to check Instagram every ten minutes while making their work.
They had oil lamps and real problems like measles or... See more
Allegra Preusssubstack.comI want my kids to deeply understand how to be faithful with the little. If they can steward $10 well, they can steward $1000 well. If they can steward $1000 well they can steward $100k well.
When seeking employment, we are often forced into a rat race competition in which we have to either: offer up a palatable version of our genuine passions and desire, morphing them into a grotesquely corporate version of what they were - something pure and born of love and curiosity, or potentially feel that we are embarrassing or even humiliating
... See moreWhat on earth is going on with work right now.
Why is everybody hiring but no one's getting hired? Why are we measuring our worth in rejection emails? How do you find momentum to grow while juggling two or more jobs? When did capitalism decide that a skeleton team of desperate people, misled into believing they have no other option, was the only
... See morePart of me felt undervalued, but they must have seen some promise in me. I mean, they were still offering me a job. In a way, this made things easier. … If I were being considered for the other position, the interview would end, then I'd say goodbye and head home. Goto would look over my application, and a few days later they would contact me if
... See moreChecking, trying, doing.