Pritesh

A razor is a decision rubric that has an element of paradox or counter-intuitiveness to it, and as a result is particularly challenging and costly to apply.

Words are lossy approximations though. The bandwidth of language is lower than the bandwidth of perception. Sampling with words is like taking a photo with an old camera that can see only a small number of colors.

Motivation is weather: changeable, unpredictable, often absent when you need it most. Discipline is climate: the steady, reliable conditions you create for yourself regardless of how you feel on any given day.

PMF is effectively the nailing before the scaling.

Cynicism is a completely reasonable defense against fraud and bullshit. The trouble with cynicism as a defense mechanism is that you can get so good at it that you inadvertently also defend yourself against anything good happening for you.

Maybe most importantly, a Personal Business is properly scaled. It doesn’t have to be small, but it should grow at a pace that optimizes for its own resilience rather than to dominate a market.

Find fulfillment in this chapter, knowing you might need to find it again later. The impermanence creates freedom where permanence creates pressure.

The thing about memes is they don't spread because someone forces them to. They spread because they make connections that weren’t there before.

Ken Griffin on how obsession wins:

“If you’re not passionate about the field you’re engaged in you won’t have the grit or perseverance to compete with those who are.”