Mindlo Durden

The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who do not know what they are doing.

[Mindlo Durden @mindlo_zondo]

"For what it's worth, it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be ... I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again." —F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“It’s impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously you might as well not have lived at all.”

— J.K. Rowling

[DJ.en @thisisdjen]

https://t.co/yJ2MX09OFl

[David @yourealazyfvck]

If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?

[chaz @youngrichgreek]

when I was broke, it used to bother me to my fucking core when people said this bc I knew it was so true lol

[Сarm1ne @carm1nee]

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon gave 15 years to Citigroup and got fired - he called his wife first so the kids would be ready: "the youngest one said - Dad, do we have to sleep on the streets?"

this is him explaining the phone call he made to that boss a year later, the mistake he admits was his own, and the day his own hires walked in and told him to give up his pay too

"my net worth was not my self worth. I had to remind myself of that"

"I called him a year later. I was wrong for Citigroup at that point. I acknowledged my own mistakes"

bookmark & watch the full conversation - then read the article below ↓

[Bender @Benderxxx7]

An MIT professor just explained why the number e is hiding inside almost every serious exponential calculation.

Most people memorize:

d/dx eˣ = eˣ

Almost nobody asks why.

The professor starts with a harder question: what happens when you differentiate aˣ?

The answer turns out to be:

d/dx aˣ = (ln a)aˣ

And that mysterious extra factor, ln a, is exactly why base e is special.

For e, the factor becomes 1.

So the derivative of the function is the function itself.

But then he goes further.

Take:

(1 + 1/n)ⁿ

As n approaches infinity, the expression approaches e.

That means e isn't just some random calculator constant.

It is the unique base where growth and its rate of growth become the same thing.

And once you understand that, calculus starts looking very different.

[Kgethi Phakeng, PhD(Wits); Hon DSc (UBristol) @FabAcademic]

Wednesday Career talk:

A first degree is not a job title and a second qualification need not stay in the same field.
You can study Psychology then computing, or study Engineering then finance, or perhaps Education then cybersecurity. These combinations are not confusion. They are distinction 👌🏾

The world is hiring people who can move across disciplines, not people waiting for a vacancy that matches the name on one certificate.

Make sure you build a unique stack and then offer it where it is needed.
#CareerWednesday

[Mindlo Durden @mindlo_zondo]

@Okoro_Dior @grok what’s the name of the movie?

[David Senra @davidsenra]

My conversation with @dougleone, partner at @sequoia.

0:00 How to Dominate for Decades
3:17 Turning Fear Into a Tailwind
5:40 Immigrant Drive, Hard Work & the Beach Club
12:19 Simplifying Life & Choosing Discomfort
14:37 The Homeless Sequoia Partner With No Plan B
16:49 Stepping Down, Coming Back & Starting Over
20:04 Why AI Is Different From Every Previous Technology Shift
22:13 Doug's Three Investment Heuristics
23:52 The Cost of Selling Great Companies Too Early
25:39 Helping Founders Turn Products Into Businesses
28:28 David Vélez, Nubank & the Psychology of Founder Support
32:25 Why Founders Must Remain the Soul of the Company
36:13 Torturing Yourself Into Greatness
39:57 Don Valentine, Succession & the Sequoia School of Hard Knocks
44:28 Staying Grounded & Developing a Sniffer for People
47:46 Hypercompetitive With a Heart of Gold
50:13 Fred Luddy, Israeli Founders & Radical Directness
52:28 Trust Is the Accelerant of Business
59:57 Starting From Zero & Hunting for the Next Great Founder
1:05:59 Architect Your Board Like Your Product
1:10:24 Truth, Disagreement & the Art of Difficult Feedback
1:13:43 Humanity, Introversion & the Value of Relationships
1:18:18 What Doug Learned From Michael Moritz

Includes paid partnerships.

[The Fourth Musketeer @IV_Musketeer]

In 1939, a graduate student named George Dantzig arrived late to his statistics class at UC Berkeley. Two problems were already written on the blackboard when he walked in.

Assuming they were the night’s homework, he copied them down and went home to work through them. It took him several days longer than usual, and he apologized to his professor for the delay.

His professor, Jerzy Neyman — one of the most respected statisticians of his time — didn’t scold him. He was stunned into silence. The two problems Dantzig had casually solved as homework were actually famous unsolved theorems in statistics, ones that had stumped professional mathematicians for years.

One of Dantzig’s solutions was prepared for publication almost immediately. He later admitted that if he’d known those problems were supposed to be impossible, he probably never would have attempted them at all.

Sometimes the only thing standing between a person and the impossible is simply not being told it can’t be done.

- Everyday Magic

[iDiski Times @iDiskiTimes]

𝗢𝗨𝗔𝗗𝗗𝗢𝗨 𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗔𝗗𝗜𝗠𝗘'𝗦 𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗬 𝗗𝗘𝗕𝗨𝗧 🌶️

“I will be honest with you, I am someone who wants efficiency, I want goals and clean sheets.

“But in the same time, like I just said to my boy, I said ‘come here, my boy it’s 2-0, just enjoy your football. I don’t have nothing else to say, just enjoy your football’.

“And sometimes you need to give this freedom to these boys, even I will be honest with you, climbing on the ball, stuff like that, when it’s 0-0 or draw, I don’t like.

“But when we are three goals or four goals, I have to integrate myself in the culture of the country and sometimes to leave them the freedom.”

[Sam @Sam_Axiom]

This is how projectile motion should be taught.Clear. Complete. Easy to revise.
Save this.

[Gboye__ginger @gboye__ginger]

You have to fall in love with her in different versions. The young her, the tired her, the pregnant her, the ambitious her, the difficult her, the woman she becomes with time. That’s the real secret.

[stressed @onlystresstoday]

your soul knows when it’s time for a new chapter. don’t ignore it.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

STUDY HARD.

No matter if it seems impossible.

No matter if it takes time.

Wake up early and start studying for your future.

Just remember that the feeling of success is the best feeling in the world.

[Mohit Panchal @itsbookgains]

The next pandemic is Brainrot. Only reading culture can save us.

[Rohit @HeyRohhit]

In 1964, Richard Feynman stood at a Cornell blackboard and explained the exact problem every AI lab in the world is fighting today.

Bookmark & watch today, no matter what.

[Market Rebellion @RebellioMarket]

The Best 60 Minutes You’ll Ever Spend on Investing | Howard Marks

[liminal @Liminal1988]

"For you, I would" is,...