It rarely takes more money or energy to make something really great - Steve Jobs

Napoleon’s maxims:

Amjad Masad This post echoes what you're talking about. In particular, I think the rapid ability to prototype changes the calculus in how big organizations work, to where now it can make sense to build a quick thing to play around with before going down a long PRD process

Steve Jobs: Bad boys move in silence:

Imam Al Ghazal on the injustice of hoarding wealth. - Ihya Ulum al-Din

In 1952, this quantum physicist discovered a "hidden variable" that connects all reality. Einstein called him "my successor." But, then he was: • Exiled from U.S • Erased from science textbooks • Blacklisted by McCarthy Because what he found will shock you:🧵

Incredible quote from the founder of IKEA:

This literally breaks down what Elon does differently from the 99% Bookmark for later!

“There is a positive side to thinking longer-term. It's not just that you have to resign yourself to everything taking longer than it should. If you work patiently it's less stressful, and you can do better work." — Paul Graham

I meet one too many VCs who think they are entitled to a founder's time. If there's one thing I learned from Vinod Khosla last year, it's that you gotta..

Larry Ellison: “When WhatsApp sold for $19B, a lot of us were shocked… until we thought about it” In 2014, Mark Zuckerberg bought WhatsApp and their 450 million MAUs for $19 billion. “A lot of us [in Silicon Valley] were shocked — until we thought about it and understood the

Genetically, I should be bald. But I’m not. I've worked very hard to maintain my hair....I've tried a lot of things over the years to stop hair loss and grow strong healthy hair. I’ve injected PRP and dutasteride into my scalp way too many times. That hurts like hell and I

Vlad Tenev on why he created a community for Robinhood’s top 150 employees “We very much concentrate rewards with our top performers. So if you’re one of the best people in the company, you get rewarded very, very well. Promotions are zeroed in on those people. I have a founders

OpenAI fired this 23-year-old from their Superalignment team. But he turned his insider knowledge into a $1.5B fund that's outperforming Wall Street by 700% this year. He says maybe ~200 people in SF understand what's *actually* happening in AI right now. Here's his thesis: 🧵

Someone on HN (which is often quite crypto-skeptical) asked why exactly businesses are finding crypto and stablecoins useful. It's a very reasonable question. My response:

.Chris Dixon: The next big thing will start out looking like a toy (2010)

i still think of this when making new things, that apple seems to have forgotten: “15 platforms and a gazillion variations – how do we explain this if we don’t even know which to recommend to our friends?”

my top 4 tech twitter tweets of all time

Fantastic summary of the most effective negotiating techniques.