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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
John Stuart Mill wrote in the 1840s: “I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.”
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
The theory by Erik Hoel states that: We're not maximizing the potential of the world's most gifted individuals because we're not educating them the right way. In the past, geniuses did not go to school; they were tutored — getting most of their education at home, for a single person (or a small group of people).
Dror Poleg • Gays, Jews, and Geniuses
Entrepreneurship
Adam Durst • 3 cards
Personal: Personal projects are framed through the idiosyncratic lens of the project pursuer.
Brian R. Little • Who Are You, Really?: The Surprising Puzzle of Personality (TED Books)
Mind of the entrepreneur
Charles Blain • 2 cards
really. Our job was to keep people engaged and hanging out with us.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
studying the motivations of individuals in isolation: the patterns we see are a fundamentally social affair. More, as Anderson
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
David Senra's Ideas from the Greatest Founders in History [Updated 2025] — Eric Jorgenson
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