great quote from the Sam Altman interview of Vinod Khosla: " "A company becomes the people it hires, not the plan it makes." - hadn't heard that and it is SO TRUE.

What will remain on the threshold of eternity is not how much we earned, but how much we gave away.

Guaranteed prescriptions for misery: - Substance Abuse - Being unreliable - Resentment - Envy - Seeking vengeance - Inability to learn from the mistakes of others - Inability to handle failure What am I missing?

How To Be Successful: blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-succ… This is very long, but I think one of the most important things I've ever written.

Regret minimization is a great framework because it puts your future self in charge, and he/she is who is going to live with the consequences of your present actions.

A few weeks I wrote out what I've been doing to improve my baseline happiness. I originally wrote it to send only to personal friends. Some of them encouraged me to share it publicly. I hope its useful to some of you! bit.ly/jkanguide

The first commercial flight happened 11 years later, and the first transatlantic flight 22 years later. We landed on the moon only 66 years later - all in one lifetime.

This week I advised three different founder friends: "Don't quit now, you are just starting to compound returns!" Their companies are worth between 100m and 10s of billions. Everyone gets fatigue and wants to give up too soon!

Universities are backing themselves into a dangerous corner by becoming more expensive at the same time they're becoming less necessary.

Me making tactical changes to our firm’s asset allocation models...

We choose outcomes as goals and treat processes as chores. A better approach is to set processes as goals and treat outcomes as byproducts.

"All the value in life, including in relationships, comes from compound interest." - Naval

Managers need to write README files so everyone can work better together 👌 First read about this in Elad Gil’s High Growth Handbook

nfx.com/post/your-life…

"Until you work at a place like Wish, you don't know what data-driven is. Everyone else is data-driven when it's convenient, when it agrees with your opinions. Wish is great at ignoring their own emotions. It's data-driven with as much intellectual honesty as possible."

Mars, fascinating.

Most companies suck at solving problems So they pay McKinsey $500K+ to do it for them Here’s their 7-step problem-solving framework (for free):

I don't give a damn about what is or isn't AGI. It doesn't matter. Below is GPT-4's performance on many standardized exams: BAR, LSAT, GRE, AP, etc. The truth is, GPT-4 can apply to Stanford as a student now. AI's reasoning ability is OFF THE CHARTS. Exponential growth is the

Curiosity "Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence." -Alan Wilson Watts