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[Chumet @Chumet_]

Gold

[Kevin Rooke @kerooke]

@sama Built a list of thousands of books recommended by the world's top entrepreneurs, investors, and thinkers

https://t.co/OQhhHOSkg6

[Malume Malusi @UncleCul]

All law firms are equal, but some law firms are more equal than others.
You are not seeing the inside of a holding cell if these guys are backing you up :

-Webber Wentzel
-Bowmans
-ENSafrica
-Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
-Werksmans Attorneys

[Prashanth @Prashanth_Krish]

Buffett was relentless; he rarely took time off, and he never allowed himself to drift from his disciplined approach or adopt new priorities. And for most of his career, he worked more or less alone

https://t.co/K9AKzShvWf

[Knowledge & History @xKnowledgeBANK]

In 1998, Warren Buffett gave a 1-hour masterclass on how to never lose money investing.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

In 2014, Paul Graham gave a 1-hour masterclass on why most startups fail.

He broke down why:
• Instincts betray you
•⁠ ⁠Gaming the system backfires
• ⁠Startup expertise is mostly useless

10 timeless lessons from this Stanford talk:

1. Startups are as unnatural as skiing

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

“Extraordinary results demand extraordinary effort”

A powerful conversation with Matt MacInnis (@stanine), long-time COO and newly minted CPO at @Rippling

We discuss:
🔸 Matt’s transition from COO to CPO and what surprised him about leading product
🔸 The “high alpha, low beta” framework for evaluating people, processes, and products
🔸 Why you should deliberately understaff projects
🔸 Why you should treat escalations as gifts
🔸 Why processes exist to reduce volatility—and why it will also suppress creativity
🔸 When founders should quit their startups (hint: much earlier than VCs want you to)
🔸 Much more

Listen now 👇
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• Spotify: https://t.co/ZdY44P0CkN
• Apple: https://t.co/z7osEPqgFd

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[Ayman Al-Abdullah 🧱 @aymanalabdul]

Ask your team what their biggest blocker is

Then spend your time helping remove those blocks

Best time investment a CEO can make

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[Naval @naval]

Continuous learning is the only defensible moat.

[Ayman Al-Abdullah 🧱 @aymanalabdul]

If your company is stuck at $1 million in annual revenue, you either have a customer acquisition or business model problem

If you're stuck at $5m/year, you probably have a hiring problem

Different plateaus in growth have different root causes

[NOWinSA @NowInSA]

Incase You Missed It: Kaya Fm DJ and long time friend of the late DJ Warras, Sizwe Dhlomo gives a moving Eulogy of his friend.

Sizwe relates how The Shady Lurker brokered peace between him and the late Keirnan Forbes.

Sizwe says Warras was very opinionated and he did not agree with all his views. He also mentions Warrick associated with people that he never would. But it spoke to his character about who the man was, he got along with all types

#DjWarras

[Chumet @Chumet_]

@Eng_C_Kapita 😍

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

One lesson i took away from this conversation:

Whether you run a business or not, everything is capital allocation. Your primary job is time allocation. Every decision is a resource allocation. All decisions are investment decisions but not all of them involve obvious visible dollars.

[Temu Specialist @Nomaswazi_11]

I hate black tax.
I loathe it
I detest it
I despise it

[signüll @signulll]

lots of peeps dm me about some career advice or whatever, i never have any but i do have some good stories. https://t.co/glGIJ0nrMt

[George Mack @george__mack]

What’s a life altering meme you’ve seen on the internet? A meme so good it lodged in your brain weeks after seeing it.

[K @begottensun]

This is tooooo true. 😭

[Chumet @Chumet_]

@Muhsoci0factors You guys came to Africa and took us to all of these places that we didnt ask to be in. Now you are talking of unsustainable coexistence. We never wanted to coexist with you in the first place

[Chumet @Chumet_]

@AlexHormozi Or pretend to solve a money problem for those that dont have e.g. betting companies

[Alex Lieberman @businessbarista]

You should almost always hire for slope vs. intercept.

Intercept = experience & existing knowledge

Slope = self-belief, intellectual horsepower, high throughput, humility