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10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People: A Groundbreaking Approach to Leading the Next Generation—And Making Your Own Life Easier
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“Dunbar’s number” is a theoretical cognitive limit on the number of stable social relationships humans can maintain at one time. According to Robin Dunbar, a British anthropologist, humans have the cognitive capacity to keep track of somewhere around 150 close personal connections. Beyond this limited circle, we start treating people less like indi
... See moreJosh Kaufman • The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume
Love this from Joshua Kushner’s interview on Patrick O’Shaughnessy‘s Invest like the Best:
Patrick: How do you balance or reconcile participating in a $2b round for stripe with a 2m check into a seed company?
Joshua: They are equally concentrated - not in magnitude of capital but in emotional commitment to concentration. We don’t do a lot but wh... See more
Garry Tan isn't just the CEO of Y Combinator.
He's also a passionate writer, has a YouTube channel with 251,000 subscribers, and once turned a $300k investment into $2 billion.
Here are 10 of his best ideas:
1. How to write a good YC application: Teach the reader something… Show more
The fixed mindset, plus stereotyping, plus women’s trust in other people’s assessments of them: All of these contribute to the gender gap in math and science.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
“There is something very odd about a society where the most talented people get all tracked toward the same elite colleges, where they end up studying the same small number of subjects and going into the same small number of careers… It’s very limiting for our society as well as for those students.”