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Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance. ...If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you’re not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let

Rolf Potts • 9 Outtakes from James Baldwin's Paris Review interview - Rolf Potts

effort

I think VC-backed companies often compete with entrenched big businesses and entrenched big businesses often partner with the press and the government to enable them to win when they might not otherwise compete effectively. Note that this tactic doesn't work all the time, because government officials still have to deal with the will of the people... See more

Ben Horowitz • The Architecture of Tomorrow: An Interview With Ben Horowitz

Fundrise is a Natively Integrated Real Estate Fund that raises money from retail investors like me and handles the whole real estate investment process, from sourcing to rehab to management, using technology to remove layers and lower fees.

Packy McCormick • Fundrise & the Magic of Diversification

To put a value on the digital world by only tallying the money that changes hands is a little like trying to place a value on sex by simply measuring the amount spent on prostitution

Rory Sutherland • Rory Sutherland: The Wiki Man

intangible value

Much has been said about Figma’s astounding growth from $0 to $400M+ ARR in <5 years. In addition to being tough to build, developing a successful GTM motion took time and patience. Leadership was adamant that the product and pricing tiers be feature-complete before charging the customer. Product obsession and patience were ingrained in the culture

Sean Whitney • Figma’s Early Days—How Patience & Discipline Fostered a Killer Product

5. When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?

Arthur Aron • The 36 Questions That Lead to Love (Published 2015)

Work with purpose and meaning sounds nice but might be impossible to reach? It’s not quite what I’m getting at with increasing agency.

Tom Critchlow • Some Notes on Agency at Work

Thanks to this powerful data network effect, Google was able to move down the stack. Google wasn’t “just a website” anymore, it became an aggregator that commoditized all other websites and made them layers on top of Google’s.

Julian Lehr • The Power of Defaults

As a result, both drivers and riders would be incentivized to provide valuable feedback to Uber’s product and operations teams to consistently enhance the user experience. They would also enthusiastically grow the network, given that they stand to earn more ownership and income as it expands.