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The paradox of growth mindset: how rigidly applying the concept can ironically lead to a fixed mindset.
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here here's what i have a problem with i first of all having a growth mindset is a very very helpful thing what i have a problem is in having and how we can turn a notion like a growth mindset into a fixed mindset okay which is it's the it's this funny little trick the ego does and the ego says, okay, well, this is a growth mindset. Oh, this is not
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Ray Kroc’s disciplined strategy: intelligent loss of sales, rigorous training systems, long-term persistence, and relentless pursuit of perfection.
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It's the same principle that Sol Price used at FedMart and Price Club. Price knew that he was losing sales by not carrying every skew of the product. He called it the intelligent loss of sales. But he more than made up for it with simpler operations and more volume. Fewer products meant less complexity, which meant faster service and lower
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Jensen Huang’s management philosophy: using a flat organizational structure to accelerate decision-making and retain top-tier talent.
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You can drive great people away by making the speed of decision making really slow. why would great people stay in an organization where they can't get things done? Jensen will describe his flat organization structure in the book and also a bunch of interviews.
Here's an interview in one of the interviews. He actually compared how he runs his
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A practical strategy for launching an investment fund by first building an audience and email list through content.
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And so it wasn't like, I guess one thing that I, in hindsight, that I'm glad that I did, I registered as an RIA, a state-based, state registered RIA, even though I had no clients right away. So I could have a website and on my website, I would post stock ideas and I always ask people to give me an email address before they view the idea.
So I
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Enterprise generative AI adoption, its role in boom-vs-bubble debates, and evidence from OpenAI and Menlo reports
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Over the past few days, we have gotten a slew of reports that deal in some way with the state of AI in the business world. Now, interestingly, 2026, especially the back half, this conversation has gotten a lot more significant. Whereas before it mattered mostly to the people who were in enterprises and trying to figure out where they stood
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Designing AI tools like Sublime to enhance human discovery, joy, and focus instead of generic database-style automation
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Yeah. It does seem to me, though, that there is something, I don't know, sort of essentially pro-human about Sublime. And you and I have talked about this before and you write this news that already talk about it all the time that is like this is not supposed to feel like mining a database of you know ai generated highlights from magazine
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Economic costs of imperialism, dispersed consumer burdens, public choice dynamics, jingoism, and German colonial policy shifts
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And in that way, you finance imperialism and it makes you worse off. I suppose it's just like the arguments when it comes to free trade.
So there are a small number of protectionist forces who will benefit, let's say, the agriculture industry. They want tariffs they want quotas they benefit individually they successfully lobby for it the costs are
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How finding purpose transformed despair into meaning, turning past struggles into material for creating The 48 Laws of Power
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It's going to happen someday. Don't give up. Don't give up. Don't give up. Keep trying, right?
And so finally, I'm 35, 36 years old. I was in Italy at the lowest point of my life.
And then I met this man there who was a book packager, Joost Elfers, and he asked me if I had an idea for a book.
And suddenly,
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Modern hyper-individualism, advertising-driven self-deification, loss of community, and how epistemological humility reconnects us to higher truth.
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The average person is, is by and large removed from, from agriculture, growing their own food, et cetera, and, and things of this nature now. But we've also been abstracted from traditional community dynamics. And so we've become hyper, hyper selfish.
If you look back, I challenge you. Look back on the constant, relentless flood of advertisements
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