One of the most underrated traits in life: Having a high threshold for decision fatigue. The most successful people I know seem to have an unlimited capacity to aggregate data, synthesize it, and make quality decisions. It creates a rapid compounding effect. An engine for growth.
"So You Want to be a VC"
Im enjoying this week in Boston visiting students promoting my new book - Runnin Down a Dream. Not surprisingly, many ask me about trying to break into venture capital. I wrote a letter answering this question 15 years ago. I would send it out when people inquired. I'm making it public for the first time - with zero modifications.
1) I think it holds up well
2) make sure and read my new book also
3) I probably can't help with followups (as suggested in the letter)
Hope you find it useful. Good luck!
There’s only one thing I’m jealous of.
Yesterday, I picked up a friend at his house. It was chaos — toys scattered everywhere, two toddlers running wild, remodeling in progress.
I told my friend’s wife:
“I know life feels hard right now, but you’ll look back on today as the best of times.”
If you have kids at home, you’re living the golden years right now. Savor every moment.
@kirbyman01 Happy Birthday to your mom 🎂 and sorry to hear about your loss 💔. It’s strange to lose your number one fan. To have her there the day before and then gone all of a sudden the next. Hard to put into words.
My mom goes to elderly university for free in China. It is probably the best thing they have done for elderly. She likes it so much. You can take any subject you like, no exam, no certificate, just learning for fun. She’s now learning gardening, music, philosophy, and some geopolitics. There are farmers travelling all the way to the school everyday to learn. This is 1000x better than stupid elderly home which basically kill elderly quickly rather than care.
Hayden Christensen recalls going on a walk with George Lucas one evening while filming 'Revenge of the Sith'
"George ended the conversation by saying to me, ‘Hayden, you can't change the world. It's not possible. All you can do is try to make your own world and then invite other people to be a part of it' ... It was one of the most profound things that anyone's ever said to me, and it has really informed the way I live my life"
When Musashi was young and about to embark on his quest for greatness,
He went to the temple and prayed for two things.
“One, please protect my little sister from harm.”
“And two, please test the lowly Musashi with hardship. Let him become the greatest swordsman in all the land, or let him die.”
I’m hiring a product designer for Sudowrite.
This is a dream job for a designer who loves to write.
The beginning of the listing is… a mini therapy sesh for me.
You’d think it’d be chill after that. But no, it goes on to talk about our company cult…
https://t.co/1rmPoXCQGv
Today, we're launching Muse, an AI model specifically trained for fiction. We've been testing Muse with hundreds of authors for months, and we're excited to finally share it with the world.
This is community in Genoa that I've never seen, let alone, experienced in the US. This is the entire neighborhood turning out for the annual dinner. 1km long. Wealthy & poor eat together. Cause they live in close proximity, not apart. Drink wine. Everyone brings what they can.
Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers calls for more money to be spent on schools in response to the latest abysmal national test scores.
I’ll just leave this chart here.