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Favorite takeaways & quotes from "The Courage to Be Disliked", a book that dives into Adlerian school of psychology, contrasted w/ Freudian.https://www.amazon.com/Courage-Be-Disliked-Phenomenon-Happiness/dp/1501197274 "It
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1/ Below is my perception/(limited) understanding of Peter Thiel's worldview:People don’t understand how important economic growth is.It’s the only thing sustaining the planet. Without it, we go into malthusian war.https://twitter.c
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Here are some of the most interesting books that changed my mind in 2020:Thread Peter Turchin tries to quantify history in "secular cycles" using demographic data.TLDR: As population expands, wages
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The average ambitious person spends too much time accumulating optionality & too little time taking actual risk.They compete insanely hard to accumulate options for the future, instead of figuring out
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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
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Slate Star Codex had this post along time ago that explains why the center-left seems to hate, say, Margaret Thatcher or Milton Friedman, more than Osama Bin Laden.Or the same
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Many young ppl feel constrained by lack of big network, but IMO they're constrained by the value they can provide a networkThey think they need to get coffee w/ XIMO
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Collection of scattered quotes & ideas from Thomas Sowell. "If the government took over the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand." There was a time where only
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More summary on the current state of universities:What's college bundle?- skills & training- adventure for young adults- dating service- sports complex attached to a hedge fund- credential- how employers delegate
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Book notes from Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century" Curious to hear critiques & responses to the book.https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/0674979850/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/130-690528
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I agree. Colleges are screwed.The elite ones aren't screwed. They'll be fine.But their best days are behind them. Competitors will emerge, and they'll lose cultural dominance. They're like a tech
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1/ Here's an on-going thread of threads on career stuff: At a high level, I think one wants to build a Personal Moat, or a unique accumulating advantage.https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg/status/1065405693212143619 2/ What’s
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