Rodrigo Corral

[Latinometrics @LatamData]

(1/8) Can you guess which literary genius saved 2,000 lives and which one sold 50M+ copies worldwide?

A thread on LatAm's greatest authors 📖:

[Felipe Mendiguren @fmendiguren]

La disciplina es más importante que la inteligencia.

[Arturo Pérez-Reverte @perezreverte]

@Toymumayor Junte a un malo con 1.000 tontos y tendrá usted 1.001 malos. Es simple historia de la humanidad.

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

“If you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”

Montesquieu said this 300 years ago. We’re still working on this one.

[Matteo Franceschetti @m_franceschetti]

Just read this: "It's estimated that 108,000,000,000+ humans have ever lived on Earth. You are 1. It's also estimated that recorded human history dates back ~5,400 years. Your average lifespan is ~80 years. You get 1 percent. You are 1 human with 1.5 percent of history"

[steve jang @stevejang]

@dsaezgil our mental model of continental scale are so off. those old 2d maps we grew up studying have intentionally skewed sizes due to converting a spherical map to a flat rectangle. the aggregate land in the northern hemisphere is a _lot_ smaller.

[Matthew Kobach @mkobach]

Your past doesn’t define you.

You are under no obligation to be the person you once were. That person doesn’t even exist anymore if you don’t want them to.

[VV @visualizevalue]

Iteration.

[Austin Rief ☕️ @austin_rief]

Be cautious of taking advice from people with no skin in the game.

[Gabor Gurbacs @gaborgurbacs]

The true size of Africa is astounding.

[Descubre.vc @DescubreVc]

El demoday de @500LatAm rompió la pantalla con +US$52M en compromisos de capital en las 14 startups que hicieron su pitch 🤯 🚀
https://t.co/aRvHZ1bnAw

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The power of established ideas is so great that even the most independent-minded people only rarely overcome it. The difference between independent-minded and conventional-minded people is that the former see past established ideas 1% of the time, and the latter 0%.

[Mario Gabriele @mariogabriele]

Mercado Libre is an absurd company.

- $3.9 billion in 2020 net revenue
- $50 billion in payments processed
- Barely scratched the surface

Seriously, the more I looked at Meli, the more opportunities I found.

Here's what I mean👇

https://t.co/490yTYyWeB

[Jesse Pujji @jspujji]

A project manager and a failed DJ use their severance packages to bootstrap a web design agency.

It fails.

The crazy part?

Their side hustle turns into a ubiquitous $10 Billion SaaS Startup 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

[Shu Nyatta @snyatta]

Biggest lesson of my career, from the master of momentum, @marceloclaure. Get things going, don’t over think it, figure it out as you go

[Jesse Pujji @jspujji]

A turkish immigrant used a commodity product to turn a $800,000 SBA loan into $10 BILLION.

This is an incredible story 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

The big three have won 60 of the past 72 Grand Slams. Insane.

[Web Smith @web]

YouTube may be the most educational tool of our lifetime.

We talk about decentralized finance but YT has helped to decentralize learning.

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

This Djokovic/Nadal match is so epic that they are letting fans break COVID curfew to stay and watch:

"Due to the exceptional nature of the match, public authorities have allowed this match to go on with fans."

Love it.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Floyd just got paid $100 million for a workout 😂