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My immersion in both sides of virtually every contentious issue of our time taught me a final precept: Beware of ideology, especially your own.
The Stoic Capitalist
Robert Rosenkranz
Schopenhauer’s solution to clickbait is a form of inversion — the best way to read better is to avoid reading junk. In his words, we should make it a rule to “never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.”
Arthur Schopenhauer on the Dangers of Clickbait
fs.blog
Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started.
Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished. Long-term orientation is in short supply; try not to worry about what people think in the short term, which will get easier over time.
It is easier for a team to do a hard thing that really matters than to do an easy thing that doesn’t really matter; audacious ideas motivate people.
Incentives are superpowers; set them carefully.
Sam Altman
blog.samaltman.com
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