How the Greatest Entrepreneurs Hire (h/t David Senra)

• Steve Jobs stated that each new hire became a percentage of the company, so why wouldn’t you take the time to find all A-players?

• David Ogilvy, as an already established businessman, would see advertisements that he liked and then cold call the person who made the ad — this is how he sourced his t

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what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation

Prove you can do hard things When a teenager asks why they need to learn calculus, what should you say? You know they will never use it in adulthood, outside of certain career choices. You could say, “It’ll help you get into college,” but then they’re left wondering why… Show more

21 best ideas in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay on Self Reliance (via justin murphy)

1. Most people do not trust their own beliefs. The essence of genius is simply to trust yourself—to infer that whatever seems most true in your heart is most true in reality—and for everybody else, too, despite whatever they may claim.

2. There is hardly anything more painful

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You don't need a goal, you need a theme: "With a theme, happiness becomes more about how you behave rather than what you achieve. Life is not a series of wins and losses. Though our highs and lows may shock us, lift us up, and forever shape our memories, they do not define us. Most of life happens in the in-between, and what we want in life must... See more