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10 Lessons from Katharine Graham.

When Graham took over the Washington Post in 1963, she was a shy socialite who’d never run anything. By retirement, she’d taken down a President, ended the most violent strike in a generation, and built one of the best-performing companies in history.

Graham had no training, no experience, not even confidence. She did have the right values and the courage to act.

10 Lessons from her incredible journey:

1. The Velvet Hammer: Katharine never raised her voice. She never pounded tables. Never tried to out-masculine the men. She stayed soft-spoken while becoming as hard as steel. Nixon’s administration learned too late: the quiet ones hit hardest. Competence whispers, it doesn’t shout.

2. Values Beat Analysis: The Pentagon Papers decision arrived during Katharine’s Georgetown dinner party. The Washington Post had just gone public two days earlier. Everything was at stake. Publishing classified documents meant likely criminal charges, losing television licenses, and destroying the IPO. Her lawyers said it was financial suicide. Her editors said not publishing was journalistic suicide. She remembered her father’s principle: newspapers exist to tell the truth. “Let’s publish,” she said, then hung up.

3. Don’t Care What They Think: Nine months into Watergate, the Post was still the only major paper digging. Everyone thought they were wrong. The Chicago Tribune and other major media outlets openly mocked them. The administration went after the Post, causing the stock to crash 45%. The President of the United States targeted their TV licenses. The Post’s lawyers begged them to stop. Katharine kept going. The rest is history.

4. Bounce, Don’t Break: The pressmen destroyed equipment, beat a foreman unconscious, and walked out. They expected Katharine to fold. After all, what choice did she have if she wanted to print papers? But Katharine had been preparing for months, training replacements and arranging backup presses. When picketers blocked trucks, she hired helicopters. While they marched outside, she worked the mailroom floor. It lasted 139 days before she won.

5. Find a Teacher: Warren Buffett bought 5% of her company without asking. The board panicked. Katharine ignored them. She met Buffett herself, saw his genius, and made him her professor. He’d bring 20 annual reports to board meetings, teaching her line by line. She was humble enough to know she didn’t have all the answers and smart enough to know who to listen to.

6. Freedom With Transparency: Ben Bradlee got total editorial freedom. The only rule? No surprises. He could fight presidents, spend millions, and pursue any story in the public interest. She never questioned his judgment. He never blindsided her. Result: Pentagon Papers, Watergate, 18 Pulitzers. Maximum freedom requires maximum transparency.

7. Step Off the Edge: “What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the edge.” That’s how Katharine described taking over the Post. There was no grand strategy, no master plan. Just the next step. Eight years later, she was staring down presidents. You’ll never feel qualified for what matters. Step anyway.

8. Decades Over Quarters: Wall Street wanted quarterly earnings and exciting acquisitions. Katharine wanted to create a company that would last. She went against their wishes, buying back stock when it was cheap (and it was very uncommon to do so), and acquiring a “boring” education company, Kaplan, which would eventually generate more revenue than the newspaper. She was a public company but operated it like a private one.

9. Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing: Katharine faced constant pressure to choose: profits or principles, safety or stories, shareholders or journalism. The Pentagon Papers could have killed the IPO. Watergate bled millions in legal fees and threatened their television licenses. The pressmen’s strike threatened operations. Every crisis offered an excuse to compromise but she never took it. The Post’s mission to hold power to account stayed the main thing. She proved what others deny: when you keep the main thing the main thing, everything else follows. Principles aren’t an expense. They’re your compass.

10. Protect your People: When Nixon came after the Post with the full force of the executive branch (challenging TV licenses, crashing their stock, and threatening prison), Katharine never wavered. She’d told her reporters to keep digging, and she meant it. When prosecutors demanded their notes, she took them home herself. If anyone went to jail, it would be her. Not them. For nine months, while other papers stayed silent and friends begged her to stop, she kept her word. The President of the United States couldn’t make her break it. Most leaders fold under pressure. She knew something they didn’t: your word is all you have. Once broken, it’s worthless forever.

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@KumarExclusive Eastern person values loyalty (to one’s family or group) over integrity, whereas the western person values integrity over loyalty?

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@Loganullyott Who will do the boring, soul-sucking maintenance of archaic systems written in programming languages that no American wants to learn anymore ?

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@Loganullyott Some nuances are lost in the discussion like labor immobility within USA - there might be surplus of American workers in Austin, but will they move to Buffalo or Cleveland for a job? (Esp during pre-COVID)

Flexibility of foreign workers is not to be ignored

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@Loganullyott #1 : Usually located around few tech clusters (SV, Seattle, NYC)
#2 : Located all over USA, including numerous smaller cities.

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@Empty_America https://t.co/ivqubh1JaY

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@matchaman11 @langchain @hwchase17 @ankush_gola11 Thank you

[Anil Chandra Naidu Matcha @matchaman11]

Excited to share a demo of AI course creator built using @langchain by @hwchase17 & @ankush_gola11 🔥 🔥 🔥

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@mnicoletos It is probably afraid of another crisis like 1997, when it had to impose the capital controls to defend itself and 2008, when again it saved itself from the global financial turmoil.

https://t.co/Tt9k2aM3MA

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@chriswallace puru.tez

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@NLTDigitalArt @TheBlack_Void_ @Oli_Yuki25 @ethdotco @objktcom HNY @NLTDigitalArt !