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The thing that no one ever tells you about your calling is that it’s boring. Oh, everything is interesting if you’re interested… shut up. Yes, it will be exhilarating and fun and fluid and and natural and meaningful. It will also be tedious. It will hurt. You will encounter obstacle after obstacle until you feel like you’re in a video game with alg... See more
Fun graphic on $META from the Rowan Street annual letter (a hedge fund that printed a 102.6% net return in 2023): Shows how non-linear the path to good returns can be and how conviction pays off. https://rowanstreet.com/post/rowan-street-2023-year-end-letter…
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it took Mr Beast almost 9 years to start earning real money – his mom even made him enroll in community college (he lasted two weeks there)
I often think about the fact that at 31 years old, Charlie Munger was divorced, broke, and burying his 9 year old son, who had died from cancer.
by Brian Ji
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This startup's revenue graph is the best illustration I've seen of the overnight success that takes years. The graph goes almost vertical at the start of 2023, six years in.
by Paul Graham
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if you keep going the right mentor or cheerleader shows up
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The legendary designer Paula Scher said, “I still [a little over 5 decades into her career] make things that are pretty awful. It’s part of the process. You have periods of tremendous productivity and other periods where you’re fallow. The fallow periods are really important because that’s where you’re figuring something it out. You have to work th... See morefrom SIX at 6: Swiss Cheese, In The Heights, Wylie Dufresne, STORY, Owning Your Style, and The Fallow Periods - Billy Oppenheimer by Billy Oppenheimer
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the fallacy of “we tried that, didn’t work” via dhh:
no logical fallacy provides as much of an obstacle as “we tried that, didn’t work”. The fallacy that past failed attempts dictates the scope of what's possible.
That just because someone, somewhere, one time attempted something similar and failed, nobody else should try. That lowering our collectiv
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