Strongurl

Tech, finance, equality. Founder Strongurl / Investments @LighterCapital / Council Member Digital Economist @econ_digital / Frmr Wall Street exec 20+yrs

[cindygallop.eth @cindygallop]

'Gendered oldism', 'youngism', 'middle-ageism'...We found no age was the right age to be a woman leader. There was always an age-based excuse to not take women seriously, to discount their opinions, or to not hire or promote them.' @amydiehl @leannedz
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[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

On the 27th straight day of filming “Forrest Gump,” Tom Hanks was tired & worried.

During a scene on the famous park bench, Hanks stopped & said to director Bob Zemeckis,

“Hey, Bob…is anybody going to care about this movie? I don’t think anybody’s going to care.”

Bob replied,

“It’s a minefield, Tom. You never know what’s good…It’s a minefield! It’s a goddam minefield! We may be sowing the seeds of our own destruction.”

Tom Hanks told this story after he was asked, “When I ask for a memory from your career, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?”

He said that what Zemeckis said was true of every movie he’s worked on:

“There’s never any guarantee...You do not know if it is going to work out.”

Takeaway 1:

Hanks is the 5th-most highest-grossing actor of all time.

And yet, the stickiest memory of his career is the feeling of uncertainty.

Rarer than talent or work ethic, the poet John Keats wrote, is the ability to step into and push through doubts and uncertainties.

In 1817, Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization.

“At once it struck me,” Keats wrote, “what quality went to form a Man of Achievement … Negative Capability.”

Keats explains that “Negative Capability” is “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”

Takeaway 2:

Those who possess Negative Capability, who can sit with uncertainty, who can spend months or years in the minefield that is working on something while knowing that there is a real possibility no one will care about it—they often possess another quality.

They do what they do, not as a means to some end (money, fame, awards, etc.), but for the sake of doing it.

When asked about one of his movies that commercially failed, Hanks said,

"I loved making that movie. I loved writing it, I loved being with it. I love all the people in it."

As Ryan Holiday once told me, "The work has to be the win."

You control the effort, he says, not the results.

"So ultimately, you have to love doing it. You have to get to a place where doing the work is the win and everything else is extra.”

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“Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're going to get.” — Forrest Gump

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[Tracy Chou 🌻 @triketora]

what is going to be the impact of generative ai on harassment? i can tell you one shitty consequence already: platforms hiking api prices skyhigh, ostensibly to monetize data for llm training but then also killing anti-harassment tools like @blockpartyapp_ https://t.co/rWchHOHCv1

[Katie Palencsar @damekatiep]

"We can get more women involved in fintech," Palencsar said. "But not everyone is going to look the same on paper."

Thank you @nicolecasperson for so amazingly articulating the embedded finance movement for female founders and investors. ⭐️@Forbes

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[Jenny Fielding @jefielding]

Founders, please don’t give up 40% of your cap table at the pre-seed There are other ways to survive while you build momentum / metrics. You are not setting yourself up for success long term. Call a founder friend first who can guide you or email me before you do this! 🙏🏼

[Strongurl @jamiestrongurl]

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[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

In a changing world, expertise quickly becomes obsolete without humility and curiosity.

Expertise is what you know. Humility is knowing what you don’t know. Curiosity is how much you want to learn.

Expertise yields insight today. Humility and curiosity fuel growth tomorrow.

[amna @RealAmnaNawaz]

Q: is there anyone inside Twitter who tells Elon Musk what he needs, not wants, to hear?

@karaswisher : no. He’s got a bunch of enablers and suck-ups…and I think some people have stayed because they have to…but all I’m hearing from the inside is chaos.

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Humans brains are cool

[@AkiyoshiKitaoka]

[Lefteris Karapetsas @LefterisJP]

A man who stole $10B, @SBF_FTX just got interviewed, portrayed almost as a victim and got an applause at the end

Still free and fine.

Aaron Swartz, who downloaded academic journals to share with the world got $1m in fines and 35 yrs in prison. This lead him to take his own life

[Joon Kim @itsjoonkim]

Never trust a person or a team. Trust data and information, while tirelessly questioning whether they are objective and truthfully representative.

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

No relationship is perfect. There will always be some elements that would be better if you were with a different kind of person. But the positives should significantly outweigh the negatives.

The same logic can be applied to careers.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

The learning process isn't finished when you acquire knowledge. It's complete when you consistently apply that knowledge.

Many people accumulate information. Far fewer use it to evolve and improve.

The ultimate test of growth is closing the gap between awareness and action.

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Take a look. Then take another look.

h/t @SteveStuWill

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Feeling unsteady is not a sign of instability. It's often a path to progress.

Standing still feels secure, but gaining momentum to move forward requires tilt or sway. Walking is controlled falling.

Being in equilibrium breeds comfort. Feeling off balance leads to growth.

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Knowledge is pushed upon us in school, at work, and generally through life experience. Pushed learning happens out of necessity, usually slowly and sporadically.

Curiosity is a magnet that pulls additional knowledge in. Switch on that magnet by indulging your curiosities.

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

A goal of any analyst should be that they can explain their opponent's position as well as their opponent can.

Actively seek to understand how other people think, steelman their views, and think through them.

A lot of human interaction involves people speaking past each other.

[Maya Zehavi @mayazi]

The irony that crypto was lauded for years as a technology to rectify a lot of the credit mistakes that spiraled out of the GFC (subprime MBS), only to to replicate the same structures in crypt based lending & funds, was almost preordained.

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

What are your top 2?

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[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Found it