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