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In fact, anyone who has worked inside the venture capital industry learns pretty quickly that sales and marketing skills are prized more than just about any other skill, even technical expertise, because you have to get deals by winning entrepreneurs over.
How Andreessen Horowitz Is Disrupting Silicon Valley
Peter Sims
With the loss of them there follows uncertainty, and with uncertainty, disequilibrium, since life, as both Nietzsche and Ibsen knew, requires life-supporting illusions; and where these have been dispelled, there is nothing secure to hold on to, no moral law, nothing firm. We have seen what has happened, for example, to primitive communities unsettled by the white man’s civilization. With their old taboos discredited, they immediately go to pieces, disintegrate, and become resorts of vice and disease.
Myths to Live By
Joseph Campbell
To flourish as a human being is to live life fully. That means more than simply accumulating pleasures and avoiding pain. Flourishing includes living and acting with integrity, virtue, purpose, meaning, dignity, and autonomy-aspects of life that are not just difficult to quantify but that you might put front and center, regardless of the cost.
Wild Problems
Russ Roberts
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