Zach Kirshner
BEYOND PROFESSIONALISM
from Zero to One by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
.h2A clear argument has to lay out an inferential pathway, starting from what the audience already knows or accepts. If you don’t recurse far enough, you’re just talking to yourself.
from Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
In the senate
from SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
Ignore the details early on
from Rework by David Heinemeier Hansson
.h2RUTHLESS PEOPLE
from Zero to One by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
.h2Aeneas and more
from SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
- The most important question for me is, "How do I want to spend my days?" And the answer is: I want to spend my time thinking, creating, and ideating with a small group of people to build a beautiful, creative, values-aligned business. I am not interested in 14-hour work days, back-to-back meetings that deplete my energy, can’t catch a breath to-do ... See more
from Sari Azout on Building Emotional Capital by Sari Azout
YOU ARE NOT A LOTTERY TICKET
from Zero to One by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
.h1- Kierkegaard said that the greatest hazard of all is losing oneself — dangerous because it occurs so quietly. To be fully ourselves, then, is a thunderous feat. It is to resist the inertia of comfort and conformity and half-lived lives; to engage in the deliberate, demanding act of self-authorship rather than assuming a role that has already been wr... See more