Pablo Picasso, The Kiss

Steve Jobs : how to design perfect products.

The harsh truth:

Steve Jobs: Bad boys move in silence:

"If" by Rudyard Kipling is also one of my favorite poems and it really is a blueprint for men to aspire to.

Simplify:

Bill Walsh fucking nails it:

This is how I pick winners

Naval Ravikant: The only true test of intelligence, is if you get what you want out of life.

Larry Ellison: You won't be successful doing the same thing everyone else is doing “My standard advice to entrepreneurs is you can’t be successful as a small company doing the same thing everyone else is doing… If you’re an entrepreneur, you have to find errors in conventional

This is easily the best essay I’ve read all year.. highly recommend reading in full

Al Pacino - Talent means nothing if pressure makes you crumble.

Steve Jobs dropped the coldest business truth of all time

First-principles thinking is about chasing the Whys until you hit the bottom of reasons. Truly curious people get to unprecedented depths of knowledge. Ask yourself, "Where does fire come from," and see how far you can go. Then watch Feynman.

The question of 'how to paint' drove Leonardo to figure out how everything worked. His masterpieces are so because of how much work went into making every single pixel truthful. Here's Feynman's method to force first-principles thinking:

Get rejected constantly

this is unironically the right way to build a startup

Steve Jobs on the importance of editing your team:

Only risk takers win.