James Moses

Special breed.

[Larry The Juicer @LeisureLarry419]

@joseph_tsar_ Recently gave a best man speech to my friend of 13yrs. I legit had a room full of Greek, Italians, Black Americans, Irish & Asian folks super impressed with my speech & how I delivered it. I naturally have a compelling voice but I do pride myself on communication & clarity‼️💯

[Olúwatósìn Olaseinde @tosinolaseinde]

When a work environment is hostile, management has played a role in it. When there's sibling rivalry in a family, the parents have played a role in it. You can deliberately create the atmosphere you desire.

[Adewale Adetugbo @aadetugbo]

Switched jobs 5 times is low key the cheat code

[Olúwatósìn Olaseinde @tosinolaseinde]

You will pay dearly for it

[Olúwatósìn Olaseinde @tosinolaseinde]

If FIFA with $13 Billion revenue is doing this, you should be doing this too. Get your users/customers to give feedback regularly.

[@𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗷𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗯𝗼𝘆 @OneJoblessBoy]

Wealth building is possible even when you're in debt

- Tosin Olaseinde

[NaijaFarmer @Nig_Farmer]

This coach is not just coaching those kids... He's coaching us all.

What a man!!!

Don't look at other's pace and position focus on your own grind.

There's no first to reach in life. The goal is to be present in the circle of influence

May the universe make it easy for us 🙏

[Commuter @commuterny]

Erling Haaland’s perspective on feeling tired:

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

The amount of confidence you gain when you say you’re going to do something and then you do it is insane.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Robert Greene was right when he said:

“Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That’s your source of power.”

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

There is a process that I have used, and still use, to reignite life...

Create two timelines—6 months and 12 months—and list up to five things you dream of having (including, but not limited to, material wants: house, car, clothing, etc.), being (be a great cook, be fluent in Chinese, etc.), and doing (visiting Thailand, tracing your roots overseas, racing ostriches, etc.) in that order.

If you have difficulty identifying what you want in some categories, as most will, consider what you hate or fear in each and write down the opposite.

Do not limit yourself, and do not concern yourself with how these things will be accomplished. For now, it’s unimportant. This is an exercise in reversing repression.

Be sure not to judge or fool yourself. If you really want a Ferrari, don’t put down solving world hunger out of guilt. For some, the dream will be fame, for others fortune or prestige. All people have their vices and insecurities. If something will improve your feeling of self-worth, put it down.

Drawing a blank? In that case, consider these questions:

1) What would you do, day to day, if you had $100 million in the bank?
2) What would make you most excited to wake up in the morning to another day?

Don’t rush—think about it for a few minutes.

If still blocked, fill in the five “doing” spots with the following:

— one place to visit
— one thing to do before you die (a memory of a lifetime)
— one thing to do daily
— one thing to do weekly
— one thing you’ve always wanted to learn

What does “being” entail doing?

Convert each “being” into a “doing” to make it actionable. Identify an action that would characterize this state of being or a task that would mean you had achieved it. People find it easier to brainstorm “being” first, but this column is just a temporary holding spot for “doing” actions.

Here are a few examples:

1) Great cook —> make Christmas dinner without help

2) Fluent in Chinese —> have a five-minute conversation with a Chinese co-worker

Determine three steps for each of the dreams in just the 6-month timeline and take the first step now.

Define three steps for each dream that will get you closer to its actualization.

Set actions—simple, well-defined actions—for now, tomorrow (complete before 11 A.M.) and the day after (again completed before 11 A.M.). Once you have three steps for each of the four goals, complete the three actions in the “now” column.

Do it now. Each should be simple enough to do in five minutes or less. If not, rachet it down. If it’s the middle of the night and you can’t call someone, do something else now, such as send an e-mail, and set the call for first thing tomorrow.

If the next stage is some form of research, get in touch with someone who knows the answer instead of spending too much time in books or online, which can turn into paralysis by analysis.

The best first step, the one I recommend, is finding someone who’s done it and ask for advice on how to do the same.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The older I get, the more I realize how much of your life is shaped by the stories you tell yourself. I’m not ready. I’m too late. I’m bad at this. I never follow through. Be careful. You believe what you repeatedly rehearse. Tell better stories. Then prove them through action.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

The brain is designed to learn through constant repetition and active, hands-on involvement. Through such practice and persistence, any skill can be mastered.

[Ben Awoks @benawoks]

I knew this would happen. P.E. is increasingly viewed as a more risky asset class with liquidity issues for the LPs

FOs are beginning to not see why they should give 2% to a PE firm when they can spend that 2% on internal capacity to do the directly to do the deals themselves

[Ben Awoks @benawoks]

Geography has been their advantage since the Persia days. Iran is one of the most difficult countries to invade

[Ben Awoks @benawoks]

Entrepreneurs must learn to balance optimism with realism.

Overconfidence can lead to costly decisions.

Excessive Pessimism can also lead to missed opportunities.

Balance is key.

[Ben Awoks @benawoks]

Interesting

[Ben Awoks @benawoks]

A CFA is much more valuable than a PHD in Finance. This is not a debate at all

[Will Ahmed @willahmed]

Whoop has made a lot of athletes money. You know that a whoop athlete has a good agent / manager because they enabled their athlete to invest. Many athletes miss out on great equity deals because their agents are just incentivized to get 10%+ of cash being paid to the athlete and thus block deals and investments when that’s not the case.

[Will Ahmed @willahmed]

You have no experience.
You’ve never started a company.
You’ve never had a full time job.
Nike is going to kill you.
You’re a kid.
You don’t have technical skills.
You shouldn’t build hardware.
Apple is going to kill you.
You can’t build hardware.
You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively.
Athletes don’t care about recovery.
Under Armour is going to kill you.
It won’t be accurate.
You don’t listen.
You’re an ineffective leader.
You can’t recruit great talent.
You’re going to have to pay every athlete.
You can’t measure sleep non-invasively.
It’s too expensive to research.
Athletes are a small market.
The product costs too much to make.
The product costs too much to sell.
Your valuation is too high.
Consumers aren’t going to want it.
Hardware is too hard.
You should measure steps.
Fitbit is going to kill you.
You can’t build a marketing engine.
You can’t raise enough money.
You need a real CEO.
Google is going to kill you.
You can’t be a subscription.
You can’t build a brand.
You can’t do consumer in Boston.
Your valuation is too high.
You shouldn’t make accessories.
You shouldn’t make apparel.
Lululemon is going to kill you.
You can’t predict Covid.
Stay in your niche.
You are going to run out of money.
You can’t build a health platform.
Amazon is going to kill you.
You can’t measure blood pressure.
You can’t get medical approvals.
The market is too small.
You don’t understand AI.
The market is too competitive.
It won’t work internationally.
The supply chain is too complicated.
You can’t build an AI.
You can’t raise enough money.
It’s too competitive.
Healthcare isn’t going to want it.
…

Just keep going ✌️