999th Lord Commander

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[999th Lord Commander @999LordComdr]

“When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child” Mirri Maz Duur

Game of Thrones

[Tai Lopez @tailopez]

A hard pill to swallow. If your parents never built wealth they cannot teach you how to build wealth. Love them but find new teachers.

[Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee]

Whose fucking permission are you waiting for? Go do your thing. You're going to die

[Justin Welsh @thejustinwelsh]

The dumb guy who starts a business will always be wealthier than the academic who writes theory about business.

[999th Lord Commander @999LordComdr]

Jaqen H'ghar and Arya Stark. Coolest combo in Westeros and at Braavos. #gameofthrones

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The users who complain about the flaws in your product may seem annoying, but they are on the whole probably your most valuable users. They complain because they care, and I doubt a startup could ever get really big without users who care a lot about the product.

[999th Lord Commander @999LordComdr]

“Nothing makes the past a sweeter place to visit than the prospect of imminent death “

Maester Aemon | A Feast for Crows | ASOIAF

[999th Lord Commander @999LordComdr]

“The Septons sing of sweet surcease, of laying down our burdens & voyaging to a far sweet land where we may laugh & love & feast u til the end of days but what if there is no land of light & honey, only cold & dark & pain beyond the wall called death?”Maester Aemon | ASOIAF

[999th Lord Commander @999LordComdr]

He was born a lord’s son and died a king, murdered by a jealous god. And now the storm is coming, a storm such as these isles have never known | Aeron thoughts about Balon Greyjoy

[999th Lord Commander @999LordComdr]

“You belong to the god now… You belong to the sea now, so the sea has armed you”

| Aeron Greyjoy | The Prophet | A feast for Crows |

[999th Lord Commander @999LordComdr]

“Rise, You have drowned and been returned to us. What is dead may never die” Aeron ‘damphair’ Greyjoy

| The Prophet | A feast for a Crows | GRRM #gameofthrones

[999th Lord Commander @999LordComdr]

“The dragon is time. It has no beginning and no ending, so all things come round again. Anders Yronwood is Criston Cole reborn” Arianne Martell to Ser Arys Oakheart

A feast for crows | Game of Thrones | A song of ice and fire | George RR Martin

[999th Lord Commander @999LordComdr]

“Our clothes make us different people. I would sooner be flesh and blood than silks and jewels, and you …. You are not your white cloak, ser” Arrianne Martell to Ser Arys Oakheart
A Feast for Crows | ASOIAF | George R.R Martin

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Jeff Bezos: The founder’s job is to build a “heavy” company

Jeff Bezos recalls how Amazon’s stock price fell from $113 to $6 when the Internet bubble burst.

“Shareholders were upset; employees were nervous; their parents were calling our employees and asking if they were ok,” Jeff remembers.

“This was an environment of great nervousness. But I looked at the numbers in the business and every month — as the stock price went from $113 to $6 — our number of customers went up, our gross profits went up, and our losses as a % of sales went down. Every single business metric we were monitoring for that entire period (new customers, repeat purchases, etc.) kept getting better.”

He offers founders the following advice:

“As entrepreneurs, you’re focused on the fundamentals of the business. The stock price is an ultimate output that you have very little control over. The great investor Benjamin Graham is famous for saying that the stock market is a voting machine in the short run but a weighing machine in the long run. As founders, entrepreneurs, and business people, our job is to build a heavy company. We want to build a company that when it is weighed, it is a very heavy company. We do not want to focus on the stock price. That would be misleading because [the stock price] can be disconnected from the fundamentals.”

Source: @Reuters (Oct 2025)

[999th Lord Commander @999LordComdr]

“In this world, only winter is certain” Eddard Stark to Lord Borrell, Lord of Sweetsister, Shield of Sisterton Master of Breakwater Castle and Keeper of the Night Lamp #gameofthronesquotes #gameofthrones

[999th Lord Commander @999LordComdr]

“No man is free, only children and fools think elsewise” Lord Tywin Lannister to Tyrion #gameofthrones

[999th Lord Commander @999LordComdr]

It is not the foes who curse you to ur face that you must fear, but those who smile when you are looking & sharpen their knives when you turn your back. You would do well to keep your wolf close beside you. Ice, I see, and daggers in the dark. Melisandre to Jon #gameofthrones

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Naval Ravikant: "You're going to die. It's all going to zero. What's there to stress about?"

"Stress is when your mind has two conflicting desires at once. You want to be liked, but you want to do something selfish. You don't want to go to work, but you want to make money. You have two conflicting desires, and that's stress."

Naval explains the difference between stress and anxiety:

"Anxiety is this pervasive, unidentifiable stress where you're stressed out all the time and you're not even sure why. The reason is you have so many unresolved problems that have piled up in your life, you can no longer identify what the problems are. There's this mountain of garbage in your mind. A little bit is poking out the top like an iceberg; that's anxiety. But underneath, there's a lot of unresolved things."

He shares his personal anxiety resolver:

"One big anxiety resolver for me is just ruminating on death. You're going to die. It's all going to zero. You cannot take anything with you. If you can keep that idea in front of you at all times, what's there to stress about?"

Naval reframes what "wasted time" really means:

"What is wasted time? Everything is wasted time in a sense because nothing matters in the ultimate. But in each moment, it's the only thing that matters. So if you're doing something you want to do and you're fully there for it it's not wasted time. If your mind is running away, wishing you were somewhere else, anticipating the future, regretting the past, that's wasted time. That's time you're not present for."

He concludes:

"People get worried about dying and no longer being here. But they don't realize that so much of their life is spent not being here in any case."

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

A founder kept saying "if only we had money we'd do X."

Money is not the fire. Money is gasoline you pour on a fire that already exists.

You don't have a funding problem. You have a "people don't want it yet" problem. Go make the first fire.

[999th Lord Commander @999LordComdr]

The man remains an oathbreaker. Suffer one deserter to live, and you encourage others to desert. No. Laws should be made of iron not of pudding. Nance Rayder’s life is forfeit by every law of the Seven Kingdoms” Stannis Baratheon to Jon Snow #gameofthrones #asoiaf #jonsnow