Steven Leshinger

While AGI’s impact on humanity will surely be profound, the real economic opportunity lies in narrow, cost-efficient models that can handle specialized tasks.

Entrepreneur Ben Chestnut on the importance of momentum:

“Never sacrifice momentum. I might know a better path, but if we’ve got a lot of momentum, if everyone’s united and they’re marching together and the path is O.K., just go with the flow. I may eventually nudge them down a new path, but never stop the troops mid march.”

Pre-requisites to Growth teams are:

1. Company has achieved a product-market fit (because you can’t scale something you haven’t validated the need for yet)


2. Company has enough data to apply experimentation-first approach (otherwise just keep launching and doing pre-post analysis)

An exchange from The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien on moving forward despite the difficulties we face:

Frodo: "I wish none of this had happened."

​

Gandalf: "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

Used to have a ton of difficulty sleeping well. What worked for me was blackout blinds, go to sleep around same time every night, don't work on stuff that will get my brain going after 730p and Beam Dream powder (I drink it at 830p every night).

The best way to handle pressure is to apply it.

What if you played the game like you were always on offense?

Your biological age is the number of days you’ve lived.

Your psychological age is the number of thoughts you’ve entertained.

Your sociological age is the number of contributions you’ve made.

Author Francois de La Rochefoucauld reminds us that we often justify our mistakes rather than addressing them:

"We try to make virtues out of the faults we have no wish to correct."