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You must be the surprise someone has been waiting for.

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"The morning air is fresh and pleasant. Let us take a deep breath and feel the beauty of life!"

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Good morning!
Many times, you think you can't overcome the hurdle in front of you, but when you look back, you find that once you persist in many things, it is actually just a matter of two drops of sweat!

[Censored Men @CensoredMen]

🇮🇱🇺🇸 Should The United States Scrap Their 1st Amendment For The Sake of Israel?

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Those beautiful memories are like uncaptured scenery, with endless sadness.

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Life is full of flavors, and soup comes again and again. The soup should be simmered slowly, and life should be savored slowly. I hope someone will ask you whether the soup is warm, and I hope someone will spend the evening with you.

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Open your heart and be tolerant to others and you will have the world. Remember, never come for profit, go for profit, look at life with a smile, and you will be the happiest person.

[David Perell @david_perell]

Spent two hours with Marc Andreessen, who gave me a masterclass on how to think, learn, read, research, and write.

Here's what I learned:

1. Read, read, read... then read some more.

2. Many of your best ideas will emerge in fits of rage or frustration. Channel the fury. Smash the keyboard. Lean into the passion. Torch the page with your energy.

3. Marc doesn't have much of a formal writing process. He thinks and thinks, and when epiphany strikes, he hammers out an outline as fast as possible to get his ideas on paper. Then, he turns it into a full article.

4. Marc's motto for writing and thinking: "Strong views, weakly held." Put yourself out there, but stay on the hunt for dissenting opinions from smart and respectful people.

5. Online writing tolerates and even encourages stylistic idiosyncrasies that traditional publishing would not accommodate. Lean into them.

6. The world is awash in bad content. You need to punch through. Snappy one-liners and genuine conviction are two ways to do that.

7. Marc's been reading online for as long as anybody on the planet, and the biggest thing that's surprised him is how political the Internet's become. Something changed between ~2013-2015. The Internet was once an escape from political debates. Now it's a hotbed of them.

8. Writing software is halfway between writing a novel and building a bridge.

9. Play around with communication tools. Push the limits. Doesn't matter what the rules are. When Marc felt constrained by Twitter's 140-character limit, he started replying to his own tweets and invented the Twitter thread.

10. On the quest for good ideas, surround yourself with "lateral thinkers" who can't help but come up with variant perspectives on everything they see. They won't always be right, but they're always challenge your thinking.

11. Media formats are cyclical. Nietzsche wrote in aphorisms and Twitter is aphorisms-as-a-service. Hip-hop brought back poetry. Montaigne pioneered the essay format and blogs brought them back into vogue.

12. People should write more manifestos.

13. Marc's nomination for the best living American novelist: James Ellroy.

14. GPT has revealed how much writing is pure pablum. Bland, lifeless, uninsightful, unoffensive, and not worth the price of the ink it was printed with.

15. "With GPT, every writer now has a writing partner who can do an infinite amount of grunt work without complaining."

16. "ChatGPT plagiarism is a complete non-issue. If you can't out-write a machine, what are you doing writing?"

17. Marc writes from the heart. He doesn't do much editing and likes to provide reading recommendations instead of directly citing his sources.

18. The person who writes down the plan in an organization has tremendous power. If you want to find the up-and-comers at a tech company, look into who's writing the plan. Though they may not be coming up with all the ideas, you'll know they have the energy, motivation, and skills to organize and communicate ideas in a written form.

19. Marc uses a barbell approach to consume information. He focuses on what's happening right now while also reading a lot of things that were written 10+ years ago. The content is either timely or timeless, with almost nothing in between.

I've shared the full conversation below.

If you'd rather listen on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple, check out the replies below.

If there was an Olympic category for most insights per minute, @pmarca would be a guaranteed medalist.

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When you can't find the answer, go take a look at the world.

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The autumn mood is sultry, the bright moon is in the sky, and my thoughts are strong. A greeting conveys my longing!

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

JUST IN: Pro-#Bitcoin candidate Miguel Albuquerque has won the Madeiran regional election 🇵🇹

[Not Elon Musk @ElonMuskAOC]

We all know the answer to this one, don’t we?

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Weekends are the gentleness of life, enjoy this short-term comfort.

[Not Elon Musk @ElonMuskAOC]

If Elon Musk (me) were the President, what would you ask him to do?

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US Congressman's bill to ban the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC has passed the Financial Services Committee.

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The sun is shining brightly at noon, so it’s great to go hiking together!

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Heart-warming moments in the morning

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Green ecological puree, leisure and health-preserving tofu.