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People would often talk about how passionate Bill Graham was about patient care, eclipsing the personal dedication and emotion of all his other employees, except one. Monica Higgins quotes a businessman who said that Graham’s “only rival in his passion for saving lives is Henri Termeer. Henri can make you cry.”
Conscience and Courage
John Hawkins
IN EXCHANGE FOR THE SUPPORT and the high compensation, Nvidia demands much of its people. Extreme commitment is critical to the Nvidia Way. Sixty-hour workweeks are expected as the bare minimum, even at junior positions. The workweek can stretch to eighty hours or more during critical periods in chip development—especially for hardware engineers—or as the result of a major and sudden change in corporate strategy, such as during the pivot to AI.
His grocer cats and firefighting pigs are certainly busy; nobody in Busytown is idle—or if they are, they’re carefully hidden from view by the authorities, Pyongyang-style. What they aren’t, though, is overwhelmed. They exude the cheery self-possession of cats and pigs who have plenty to do, but also every confidence that their tasks will fit snugly into the hours available—whereas we live with the constant anxiety of fearing, or knowing for certain, that ours won’t.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
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