A THREAD on insightful timeless ideas shared by @naval during 2016:
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If you diet, invest, and think according to what the "news" advocates, you'll end up nutritionally, financially, and morally bankrupt.
>be John Ternus
>2001
>26 years old
>nobody at Apple
>flown to a factory in Asia to check screws
>spec says 25 grooves
>supplier made 35
>no human being will ever see this
>lose your mind at them anyway
>win
>spend 25 years doing exactly that
>403 patents
>rip Intel out of every Mac
>build a phone 5.6mm thick
>watch the finance guys take over design
>watch every great designer quit
>watch Apple ship the same watch nine years straight
>watch $3499 ski goggles flop
>watch OpenAI walk off with 400 of your engineers
>September 1 2026
>they hand you the whole company
>kill Vision Pro 2 by lunch
>sue OpenAI by dinner
>mfw you inherit a $4 trillion machine and spend day one deleting your predecessor's legacy
THIS NIGGA DRAKE OUT HIS DAM MIND 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥I STOPPED AT THE GAS STATION THIS MORNING THE WHOLE GAS STATION PLAYING DRAKE. I WALKED N THE BARBER SHOP EVERY SUITE PLAYING IT 🔥🔥🔥 MY NIGGAS RUN THE PHONES SOON AS THEY WALK N THE PRISON…. I FELT THAT 💯💯💯💯