Still Point

At the still point of the turning world, where awareness and creation meet.

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Read full essay here: https://t.co/K3NG10CTAR

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The best sales motion isn't a sales motion at all.

$134M in revenue. Almost no sales or marketing.

Just quality so undeniable that their last customer becomes their best salesperson.

@francispedraza

#b2bgrowth #founder #mindset #marketing #business #salescycle #sales #customers

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The texts of Nālandā were never lost.

They were preserved within living traditions. Studied, commented on, practiced, and carried forward by Buddhist communities across generations.

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“I loved philosophy too much to make it my profession. The academy felt over-professionalized—corruptio optimi pessima—the corruption of the best is the worst.” - @JohnathanBi , from The Still Point Podcast

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@francispedraza Read more in our essay Artist vs. Entrepreneur - https://t.co/FIje6cFSxz

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An entrepreneur begins the adventure like Tarot card zero, The Fool, and his aspiration is to become Tarot card one, The Magician. But to transform from the Fool to the Magician, he must paradoxically not lose sight of the quest, while gaining worldly experience. Learn about gravity, but don’t lose the dream of flight.

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The AGI bogeyman is a distraction.

Most enterprises and governments can't even get models into production today. The real story of AI isn't autonomous superintelligence; it’s 25,000 humans in 100 countries training models to solve real problems.

This is the age of synthetic intelligence—not sci-fi.

@francispedraza

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Reality #Synthetic #Intelligence #EnterpriseAI

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On the humility of failure:
Sometimes the lesson isn't visible until years after the wound.

@francispedraza

#Entrepreneurship
#FounderStories
#FailForward
#failfast

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Read the full essay here: https://t.co/2oSsqHhBKc

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Our pasts, though irrevocable, invite alchemical learning & healing — mistakes into wisdom, brokenness into transformation, and weakness into strength.

- Creative Heroes. Rejecting Cynicism Thru Honoring Ancestors - A Creative & Spiritual Practice, The Still Point

#Substack
#Alchemy
#Heroes
#Philosophy

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@JohnathanBi The dream must be entered fully to be truly left behind ☁️

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.@JohnathanBi on The Nine Cloud Dream:
Not all illusions dissolve through restraint.
Some require full immersion before awakening is possible.

#Buddhistmonk #Monk #Buddhism #Enlighten #Enlightenment

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When you're ten years into a multi-decade vision, the stock price can't be your still point.
So what is?

The idea that reality itself might just be icons on a desktop — interfaces to something deeper.

Sometimes the most grounding thing is remembering how little we actually know.

@francispedraza

#StillPoint
#Philosophy
#Leadership
#CarloRovelli
#DonaldHoffman

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Read more here: https://t.co/K3NG10CTAR

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The cage is golden, but it's still a cage. The handcuffs are golden, but they're still handcuffs. The king is still lonely and anxious. - Triangulate Advice By Inquiring Within, The Still Point

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#StillPoint
#InnerInquiry
#FreedomWithin
#Philosophy

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In this conversation, Francis responds to @wintonARK (@ARKInvest ) on Invisible’s growth, profitability, and ownership—addressing the standard tech question: with this trajectory, why be profitable at all?

Francis offers a different frame.

@francispedraza

#IPO
#Profitable
#FounderLed
#LongTermValue
#Capital

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The restoration of Nālandā can be seen within a much longer arc of human knowledge.

One where meaning is not erased by time, but temporarily buried.

Recent open-source efforts using AI to recover Roman scrolls lost in the eruption of Vesuvius remind us that what seems gone is often still intelligible, waiting for the right tools to be read again.

@francispedraza

#LongTermThinking
#Civilization
#AI
#Nalanda
#FrancisPedraza
#TheStillpodcast

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Our schools are factories for agreement.

They produce people who follow rules well — but struggle to think from first principles or ask the questions that actually matter.

Plato traced all of society's problems back to education. Thousands of years later, the diagnosis still holds.

@francispedraza

#Education
#FirstPrinciples
#EdReform
#Leadership
#Plato
#TheStillGamePodcast

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Read more here: https://t.co/2oSsqHhBKc

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It is only by recognizing our inadequacy that we can find inspiration. It is only by recognizing our insignificance that we can find significance.

- Creative Heroes Rejecting Cynicism Thru Honoring Ancestors - A Creative & Spiritual Practice, The Still Point

#CreativeHeroes
#Rejecting #Cynicism
#InnerWork
#ThoughtfulLeadership
#FrancisPedraza
#Philosophy