Huge benefit of being an @a16z portfolio company:
The a16z CEOs mailing list.
Founders at all stages asking each other for input, figuring out how to run a company.
100x more useful than any book on entrepreneurship.
Is anyone currently reading "The Almanack of @naval Ravikant or has started reading it ?
We all can discuss the concepts of the book.Anyone interested can write to this tweet.
Early career years are painful.
You feel like an idiot 98% of the time - lost, confused and insecure.
I wish I had a cheat sheet of principles for my first job.
So I put one together.
Here are 20 things about building a career I wish I knew sooner:
1/Quality of your talk function.
(It's MIT, they think in functions.)
Function of how much knowledge you have, how much you practiced with that knowledge, and your inherent talent.
Talent is the smallest part.
The measure of wealth is freedom.
The measure of health is lightness.
The measure of intellect is judgment.
The measure of wisdom is silence.
The measure of love is peace.
An empty calendar in a busy world feels like a performance enhancing drug.
It gives extra time to:
- Think
- Read
- Walk
- Plan
- Exercise
- Switch the mind off
- Chat to interesting friends
- Research the edges of domains
^^^
Dividend paying assets
How I learned Solidity programming in a month:
In April during lockdowns, I decided to invest in learning Solidity. Given that I haven't seriously coded beyond HTML in almost 20 years, it was daunting 😨
But it doesn't have to be hard or scary to get started.
Here's how 👇