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Airbnb is a vibe company, Notion is an efficiency company.

helping someone achieve their dreams is not the same thing as achieving your own.  Or put another way, making someone else the focus of your ambition is not the same as having a self-centered, work-centered ambition. The two are different. One is selfish, the other is selfless. And lately I’ve been thinking: why is it so difficult—maybe

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Mailbox had multiple causes of death. Most people don’t download email apps; those who do don’t want to pay for them. The only path forward for an email app is acquisition, and the fate of most acquired apps is death. Other email apps copied Mailbox’s best features; aside from a somewhat dubious automatic archiving feature, Mailbox stopped building... See more

So why is reading books any better than reading tweets or wall posts? Well, sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes, you need to put down your book, if only to think about what you’re reading, what you think about what you’re reading. But a book has two advantages over a tweet. First, the person who wrote it thought about it a lot more carefully. The book is... See more

Olympic sprinters don't rush, even though they move as fast as they possibly can. Olympic sprinters know and fully accept that running 100m takes as long as it takes. Their aim is for it to take as little time as possible, yes, but they don't begrudge how long it takes. Those ten seconds from starting block to finish line don't annoy them...... See more