Matt O'Donnell
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On a never-ending search for interesting things
Matt O'Donnell
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I remember a psychiatrist once telling me that I gamble in order to escape the reality of life, and I told him that’s why everyone does everything.
― Norm Macdonald, 2016
“I used to tell this story, about my theory of fucks. The theory goes like so: you are born with so many fucks to give. However many you’ve got is all there is; they are like eggs, that way. Some of us are born with quite a lot, some with less, but none of us knows how many we have. […]
I still tell this story but I’ve changed it somewhat. Like most
One of the paradoxes of life is that the more you desire something, the less suited you can be to have it.
Brett • Sunday Firesides: To Have It, You Must Be Able to Do Without It
By starting with yourself, you can create an environment in which everyone is self-aware—which, in turn, leads to mutual awareness among team members.
Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
Anything that we playbook becomes more legible to AI.
So we must burn the playbooks .
This is the real Butlerian Jihad, not destroying the machines, but destroying the playbooks that would turn us into machines.
So we must burn the playbooks .
This is the real Butlerian Jihad, not destroying the machines, but destroying the playbooks that would turn us into machines.
Packy McCormick • Burn the Playbooks
All of my startup experience summed up:
The right person with the precise right focus and completely unshackled is 10x as effective as 10 pretty smart people working hard in a vague general direction