Shaquille O'Neal shares the investing advice he got from Jeff Bezos that made him millions
“I used to go to all these conferences cause I wanted to feel smart. You want to be smart, hang around smart people”
“This was when Jeff Bezos, years before he created Amazon, he said, ‘You invest in things that's going to change people's lives’”
“At that point, I was investing in ghetto stuff and crazy stuff and was losing. I was trying to get rich quick”
“He said you invest in things going to change people's lives. So Ring was the first one…”
LeBron James says he would never get remarried
“I already told Savannah, it ain't going to happen because we're doing this forever, same casket and everything”
“I said you ain't got to worry about nobody taking your spot ever. I'm not getting remarried. I'm not doing that. I can't invest my time and my spirit and my heart again”
“I'm talking to my daughter right now, Zhuri. Just take care of dad. I can't do it again”
I’m so in awe of builders. Like this thing exists in your mind and then all of a sudden it is concrete, it is alive and you share it with the world. Creating slices of joy, convenience & gratitude for strangers.
That is magic. And you are awesome
I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, “Never play fair in a game where others cheat.” It doesn’t mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they’ll throw dirt. Sometimes wisdom is not revenge. Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.
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What it’s like to receive a job offer directly from Satya Nadella. @kelseyhightower, former Google Distinguished Engineer, on the Microsoft offer that revealed a pay tier he didn't know existed:
“I got this email from Satya, the CEO of Microsoft.
He wrote this nice email: 'Kelsey, heard you had a good experience with the team' - remember I did the interview at the Microsoft headquarters - “heard really good things from the team, just wanted to let you know, you're going to be respected here. We're going to support you as a team.”
I'm like, damn, support as a team? Coming from the CEO?
So, number one, what an honor. This is the CEO of Microsoft. He has so many more important things to be doing than to be emailing me about a role. I opened the PDF - not very often in your career does a zero get added to the equation. And so you're looking at this like, I didn't even know that they do that.
We know that it happens. But the person that graduated from high school in 1999, that chose the A+ Certification didn't know that was available. Even while I was at Google having all the success. Google paid me pretty well too, but I didn't know you can add another zero still.
And I'm like, wow. I showed my wife and she was the one that said you should just go interview, like put your ego to the side and let's go see what's out there, so shout out to my wife.
And so I get the PDF, and I'm like, okay, this number is perfect. Honestly, I don't know what to say, but let’s just find out, is this really the only number? So I remember giving a counter: you know what, I think it should be this.
The funny thing is, Microsoft countered back higher, like we're not playing around. I'm like, oh, whoa. Now I understand that I don't understand this part of the game.”
Your heart is not a state secret. You are meant to declare allegiances. You are meant to have favourites. Write the letter. Miss the train. Stay up until dawn talking. You should be caught red-handed loving something, someone.