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“It will change your life,” the friend told him. “I don’t want my life to change,” he responded. “I like my life.”
Nathaniel Popper • Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
Behind every highlight reel is a huge B-roll of mistakes.
Tom Vanderbilt • Beginners
The early adopters go first; they buy things because they’re new, interesting, and a little bit risky. They do that because they like things that are new, interesting, and little bit risky. But there’s a problem. There aren’t enough of these neophiliacs to go around. Big organizations, mass movements, and substantial profits often depend on the mas
... See moreSeth Godin • This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See
the anxiety that technology will make people obsolete is familiar and pervasive.
Joe Smith • The Optimized Marketer: Writing with AI: Future-proof Your Talent and Position Your Business for a World Transformed by AI (The Optimized Self)
At the end of the quarter, a lone HR person ran around like a Jack Russell, nipping at managers’ heels to get updated numbers before the board meeting.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Like most of us working in the startup world and venture capital, I see technology as an opportunity to create more wealth and make things better. But I also realize that everything I’ve concentrated on during the past two decades has put me on the winning side of technological change.