“Constraints breed resourcefulness: The highest form of creativity is found by improvising within a set of restrictions.”

easily top 5 episodes of David Senra

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What it was like working with Steve Jobs:

“Walt Disney had the drive and ambition of 10,000 men” — David Senra

Got goosebumps when I listened to this earlier in the morning

Also the stories of him being a dad & reflecting on his happiest memories with his young daughters.. choked up a couple times

Such an…

“Disney’s key traits were raw ingenuity combined with sadistic determination.”

Always feels like Christmas when David Senra drops a new Disney episode

Some books I wish everyone read and internalized:

Lessons of history (will and Ariel Durant)
Upanishads (Easewaran translation)
Path of least resistance (Fritz)
Emerson’s collected essays
Labyrinths (Borges)
Bird by Bird (Lamott)
Tao te Ching
Titan (Chernow)
Sidhartha (Hesse)…

'An average idea in the hands of an able man is worth much more than an outstanding idea in the possession of a person with only average ability.'

— Georges Doriot (father of venture capital)

George Lucas was at Disneyland the day it opened. He was 11 years old.

57 years later Disney buys his company for $4 billion.

I've learned so much from David Senra over the years -- I have a Pavlovian reaction to his voice equivalent to 3 espressos ☕️☕️☕️, fueling me to try harder at life -- so I decided to make a tribute song.

I hope you get a smile out of it, and if you know Founders, you can…