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Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
Sat down with Katherine Boyle (@KTmBoyle), General Partner at @a16z and cofounder of the firm’s American Dynamism practice.
We spoke about making government cool again, lessons from journalism, authoritarianism and innovation, propaganda, irony and seriousness, and Vanna White, hostess of the Wheel of... See more
Alex LaBossierex.comThirty years later, Perkins would be appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt as secretary of labor—the first woman member of a presidential cabinet. Appalled by what she witnessed at the Triangle fire, and how preventable the deaths could have been had the employees had better working conditions—as simple as fire escapes and unlocked
... See moreMorgan Housel • Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life
That morning at the lab, Karikó’s old boss had come to see her off. She did not tell him what a terrible mistake he was making in letting her leave. She didn’t gloat about her future at BioNTech, a pharmaceuticals firm that millions now associate with lifesaving vaccines but was then a relative upstart in the field. Instead the woman who had... See more
Mattie Kahn • The Scientist Who Saved the World
Kathy Xu, one of China’s top venture investors (eg: she led JD’s Series A in 2007) counts Kanye West’s mom as one of her top formative influences while studying at Nanjing University. https://t.co/yU70zwi5BJ
