Moi Jamri
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Moi Jamri
People who learn to extract the key ideas from new material and organize them into a mental model and connect that model to prior knowledge show an advantage in learning complex mastery. A mental model is a mental representation of some external reality.
Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
Lindy Effect: "If a book has been in print for forty years, I can expect it to be in print for another forty years. But, and that is the main difference, if it survives another decade, then it will be expected to be in print another fifty years.”
"It's really about the people... we were in the right place at the right time, as the rest of the world was beginning to understand that alternative assets needed to play a bigger role."
Leadership Lessons from the Rebbe | Prizmah: Center for Jewish ...
prizmah.org
VCs are
like car salesmen or bureaucrats: the nature of their work
turns them into jerks.
like car salesmen or bureaucrats: the nature of their work
turns them into jerks.
A Unified Theory of VC Suckage
Improving constantly is an instance of a more general rule: make users happy. One thing all startups have in common is that they can't force anyone to do anything. They can't force anyone to use their software, and they can't force anyone to do deals with them.
The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You've got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your head. What are the models? Well, the first rule is that you've got to have multiple models— because if you just have one or two that you're using, the... See more
Charlie Munger • A Lesson On Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business – Charles Munger, USC Business School, 1994
There are some kinds of work that you can't do well without thinking differently from your peers.