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Here are favorite takeaways & quotes from Sam Altman interviewsIt takes 10yrs to create a great startup. If you don’t love & believe it, you’ll likely give up at some

A common trope in VC is to ask whether the most important thing is the product, market, or team.@pmarca @eladgil @arachleff agree:Markets are most importantBut how to evaluate and pick

Favorite startup frameworks I've discovered on the following topics:- Recruiting- Fundraising- PM-fit- Community Recruiting: It's important to get the first 10 hires right b/c each employee will replicate themselves 10

Reality is up for grabs right now.We're seeing more and more groups bootstrapping their own reality.People call this "community building" but sometimes it's literally people defecting the shared sense of

A summary of Stephen Hicks' book "Explaining Post-modernism" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005D53DG0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Postmodernism often bills itself as anti-philosophical, by which it means that

Rob Henderson's theory of "Luxury Beliefs".People buy luxury goods in order to showcase how rich they are.It's precisely b/c they're useless that it brings high status, b/c only wealthy can

According to Structural Demographic Theory, a major problem we currently face is that we have too many elites, not enough productivity growth to support them, and, as a result, we

A riff on positive sum:We’re not wired for abundance—We’re wired for scarcityWhen we lived in tribes, if someone took your food, or excluded you, you didn't have anywhere else to

My favorite takeaways from the book "How to Have Impossible Conversations" https://www.amazon.com/How-Have-Impossible-Conversations-Practical-ebook/dp/B07NL74KR2 Before entering an argument, identify your priority: is it the relat

"Meritocracy" changed from "How do we ensure the best rise up?" to "How do we ensure ppl get an equal chance? Who decides who's best? How?" It was used to

Some quick thoughts on the tensions between liberalism and nationalism Liberalism and nationalism are built on a very different assumption about human nature:Liberalism is predicated on the assumption that we're

Someone asked me to do this but for Twitter.Here's how I think about using Twitter as a tool to learn:https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg/status/1255574856776597504 Think of it as like a shared Google Doc of