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And then there are the Wright brothers, the inventors of the airplane according to the schoolbooks. Never mind that the first powered flight was executed nine months prior to theirs, by a New Zealander named Richard Pearse. Seemingly, it’s the last person who makes a discovery that really matters, not the first.

The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success

Albert-László Barabási

Imagine yourself in your counterpart’s situation. The beauty of empathy is that it doesn’t demand that you agree with the other person’s ideas (you may well find them crazy). But by acknowledging the other person’s situation, you immediately convey that you are listening. And once they know that you are listening, they may tell you something that you can use.

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

Chris Voss

Marc Andreessen's information diet Summary: "I'm on a total barbell. Like, so I either get information that's current right now, or I'm reading a book more often than I was like 50 or 100 years old," he said. "What I try to do is basically like fuzz out everything over a day, week, month, even year time frame." He added: "It's one of the reasons I follow 20,000 people on Twitter". Transcript: Speaker 1 And so one is, yeah, I mean, look, there's a big information diet component to it, like what are your information sources? I'll just give you my version of it. Like 100% of my information diet is either social media or books. Like, I'm on a total barbell. Like, so I either get information that's current right now, or I'm reading a book that more often than I was like 50 or 100 years old. And what I try to do is basically like fuzz out everything over a day, week, month, even year time frame, and just like fuzzle that stuff out. So it's like it's either leading edge information, or it's like basically permanent value. And so what that does is like then my social media experience, the purpose of my time on social media as a consumer of it is basically, OK, what I want, keep me on the leading edge. Show me all the new stuff. Show me all the new thinking. Show me all the crazy ideas. Like, get me exposed to all of the really creative people. And it's one of the reasons I follow 20,000 people on Twitter.

Marc Andreessen on Elon Musk, Good Startup Ideas, How to Have the Courage to Think Independently and Finding a Co-Founder

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