Great article on Clausewitz & strategy ht WTCM "Strategy is about picking the right battles. Tactics are about successfully executing those battles." "Strong determination in carrying through a simple idea is the surest route to success." www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/ideas…

"The best thing that founders can do is subtraction." - tobi lutke in an awesome interview with FS where he talks about focus, fighting bureaucracy, professional CEOs vs founder-led companies, and more youtu.be/hUug8tEWtoY?t=…

"The more tightly we control our models, the more attractive we make open alternatives" -- from leaked internal document from Google semianalysis.com/p/google-we-ha…

I loved Dwarkesh Patel's summary of Caro's biographies on Lyndon B Johnson, covering power, political intrigue, ambition, indomitability, and more. I strongly recommend it! ht Samuel Arbesman dwarkeshpatel.com/p/lyndon-johns…

.Noah Smith 🐇's fascinating take on China's material real estate problems: noahpinion.blog/p/real-estate-… "China was building a bunch of real estate that nobody was really using as real estate. Instead, they were increasingly using it as an investment vehicle." ht .

Some -- actually many -- of my favorite lines from Paul Graham's recent essay on great work paulgraham.com/greatwork.html

"if we don’t continually outgrow ourselves, if we don’t wince a little at our former ideas, ideals, and beliefs, we ossify and perish." ~@brainpicker retired retired 17 Life-Learnings from 17 Years of The Marginalian themarginalian.org/2023/10/22/17/ via @brainpicker

26 ways Michael Jordan was described in his 700 page biography: 1. His competence was exceeded only by his confidence. 2.Jordan believed mostly in himself. In Mike he trusted. All others were open to question. 3.Michael puts every ounce of talent to use. Jordan goes all out.

I’m so excited to announce our Series B!! Thanks Ryan Lawler for breaking the news: axios.com/pro/fintech-de… A huge thank you to Jesse Beyroutey from IA Ventures for leading the round and the rest of our investors for supporting us (Rohan Malhotra from Brewer Lane Ventures , Keith Hamlin from

This is the best article I've ever read on the pharma industry. It's a wonderfully accessible read on why drugs used to be discovered at a much faster rate, the different stages of drug development, what's broken today, areas of investment to improve biomedical productivity, and

In Lux’s recent letter to LPs (last part pg 3) we note rising CREDIT RISKS (amid consensus of ‘soft landing”) friend Jake Cahan of January.com recovery rates across their agency networks 📉 20-40% YoY Payment failures 📈30% YoY Risk of credit DEFAULTS rising📈

My twin Eli Cahan bailed on Thanksgiving, claiming a hospital shift Instead he went to the Ukraine/Russia frontlines to report on superbug chaos. Rolling Stone published his story, calling superbugs the "climate change of medicine." My family freaked out rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

"The smile on her face lights up a room," Doshia says of her daughter. And then, one drug screen later, Selah was taken. Doshia's not alone: tens of thousands of mothers are coming under scrutiny because of marijuana use. My latest Rolling Stone rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…