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"The more you chase a positive experience that chasing in and of itself is a negative experience and the more you accept a negative experience the more that acceptance itself is a positive experience." - Mark Manson [00:02:06]
"Happiness is not something that you pursue and achieve in and of itself it's the natural side effect of finding something…
"I don't really like telling people what to do. I like telling people where to look." - Rory Sutherland [00:00:04]
"Everybody's trying to be like Newton, and you need to try to be like Darwin. Everybody's trying to find a theory of everything... The only correct response to a complex world is observation." - Rory Sutherland…
"Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers that the love of fame is the ruling passion of the noblest minds... the love of fame correctly understood is the love of being famous for admirable qualities, not just being well known." - Thomas Pangle [00:00:37]
"We pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. What they mean there…
"It felt like either I was the best in the world or I wasn't worthy of anyone's time cuz it was just such a black and white thing of the number goes up the number goes down." - Cora Kennedy [00:01:28]
"What was kind of a harmless intrigue about the metrics became an overnight obsession." - Dan Jin…
"Whenever I've had a dream or a goal... it was words, pictures, emotions. So like I would maybe write a goal down but it would be a moment that i could picture and i could feel and i could describe and that would be my goal it wouldn't be the trophy at the end of it." - Tommy Fleetwood [00:06:53]
"In order to succeed you have to fail over and…
"Tattoos are a way to decorate our bodies in a way that it's our choice." - Shona [00:00:58]
"Think about all the opinions you hold now and think about all the opinions you held 10, 20, 30 years ago. Probably many of them have changed over time and viewed through one lens, most of us would view that as a form of growth." - Christian Wheeler…
"I think happiness is greatly overrated in today's age I think people focus on it way too much... the more you chase a positive experience that chasing in and of itself is a negative experience." - Mark Manson [00:00:45]
"Happiness is not something that you pursue and achieve in and of itself it's the natural side effect of finding something…
"Defaults are the quiet architecture of how we think and operate. They reduce friction, conserve energy, and let us move fast without having to reconsider every step. Without them, we would stall due to cognitive overload. With them, we rarely stop to ask whether they still make sense, and that’s precisely the risk."
Lin illustrates this with well-known examples: BlackBerry dismissed the touchscreen iPhone…
"Cognitive dissonance is something that you should all familiarize yourself with, and it is basically the human brain's ability to reject information which is at odds with its predisposition." - Howard Marks [00:07:25]
"In real life things fluctuate between pretty good and not so hot but in the minds of investors they go from flawless to hopeless." -…
"In many ways what I'm betting on is... vision for humanity, the vision for the economy... that change is happening much faster than we're able to respond to it." - Tomer Cohen [00:04:40]
"If you don't adopt that beginner mindset... you don't want to go to a company where your old role still exists. You want to go into a company where your new role…
"making things simple is so much harder than making things complex for those of us that were fortunate enough to work with him he was the the teacher of a lifetime" - Tim Cook [00:00:09]
"everyone saw College in those days and hopefully today as opening many doors and being able to stand on the shoulders of your parents" - Tim Cook…
Finding the Right Altitude | Alfred Lin
"A heat seeking missile for pain cuts through all of this bullshit with nearly unmatched vigor."
"Over the last ~8 years of running Athelas, and now Commure, there’s a specific type of person I’ve found who rapidly rises within the ranks of a business. These are folks who have gone from ICs -> C-suite level in a matter of 2-3 years, or folks who have risen to VPs / SVP tier right out of school." "The term…
"He's 10,000 times more effective than other people Not because he's 10,000 times smarter but because each of those improvements don't just add they multiply" - Eric Jorgenson [00:01:09]
"Failure is essentially irrelevant unless it's catastrophic" - Eric Jorgenson (paraphrasing Elon Musk)…
"People naturally become a little bit reluctant if not totally defensive to things that come at them from power." - Randall Stutman [00:00:37]
"The really special people are able to get those results and then create followership where people would do anything for them." - Randall Stutman…
"I think this market has become much more of a gambling institution and... going against consensus has become much more I think profitable." - Rick Rieder [00:00:00]
"We're not in the business of being right, we're in the business of generating return for clients... the market perception can stay wrong longer." - Rick Rieder…
@BillGurley on Breaking into VC
"It's not about how many gray hairs you have. It's not about who you know. It's been about what you bring." - Kunal Shah [00:01:48]
"I kind of had this itch to actually join the business and not just be in this risk-taking market focused group that sat on the corner..." - Kunal Shah…