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Ten years ago, if you would have asked me how happy I was, I would have dismissed the question. I didn’t want to talk about it. On a scale of 1–10, I would have said 2/10 or 3/10. Maybe 4/10 on my best days. But I did not value being happy. Today, I am a 9/10. And yes, having money helps, but it’s actually a very small piece of it. Most of it comes from learning over the years my own happiness is the most important thing to me, and I’ve cultivated it with a lot of techniques. [10]

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

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But I’m not here to throw your manager under the bus. I’m just here to tell you I need a change. And I did this once with a leader at Amazon, where I wanted to make a change. I was doing a good job for him in the role I was in. So he wanted me to stay there. And what I had to help him understand is I said, you are seeing this as I take this new role or I stay in this role, and you’d prefer I stay in this role because that’s good for you.

Amazon VP Reveals Everything He's Seen in Corporate Politics | Ethan Evans

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While the French overseas empire was crumbling, the British Empire was expanding rapidly. Like the Dutch Empire before it, the British Empire was established and run largely by private joint-stock companies based in the London stock exchange. The first English settlements in North America were established in the early seventeenth century by joint-stock companies such as the London Company, the Plymouth Company, the Dorchester Company and the Massachusetts Company.

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