Canada's PM saying what African leaders have been saying since the 60s albeit more eloquently. Chickens coming home to roost

Who could have expected Mark Carney, a liberal establishment figure if there ever was one, to be the flag-bearer for the end of the US-led order? And from a podium at Davos, of all places? The more you think about it, though, the more it makes sense. Carney is, at heart, a

We just built an $18.5M apartment complex in Dallas. In 10 years, we will sell it. The federal tax bill will be $0. Even better: The IRS will permanently forgive $5M in tax deductions we took along the way. This is the single most powerful deal the IRS can offer a real estate

"Your children are not your children." Stunning lines from Khalil Gibran from his 'The Profet': Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And

"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practise Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn theosophy by heart, or mechanically repeat mystic texts from the literature of the whole

On Scott Adams. A man finds, to his astonishment, that he exists. After the elation of childhood wears off, he asks, who am I, why am I here, how does this work? These are hard questions, so after a brief struggle, he selects a readymade answer and goes about the motions of

Ten years ago I wrote an essay explaining the source of America's increasing polarization. If you want to understand how we got from the unity (and uniformity) of the mid 20th century to the way things are now, this is what happened: paulgraham.com/re.html

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Everytime I get mad at my sports team for losing, I remind myself of what Giannis said. Arguably my favorite response to a reporter ever.

Now that I've been through being a kid, growing up, and then having kids, it's clear that the main thing that differentiates people is simply whether they make an effort. Whether they're content to drift along with the current, or whether they try to swim.

WELCOME TO THE ROOM: Satya Nadella's Lesson in Executive Accountability Most people treat a senior promotion as a destination; in reality, it is an invitation to a higher level of pressure where excuses are considered a form of professional failure. In "The Room," the distance

A few thoughts about PayPal, nearly 12 years after I left. I woke up this morning to dozens of messages from former PayPal colleagues. It pushed me to finally speak up. I never spoke publicly about the company after I left. Part of that was loyalty to John Donahoe, who gave me

Aditya Agarwal was Facebook’s 10th employee. He wrote the original Facebook search engine and became its first Director of Product Engineering. He then became CTO of Dropbox, scaling engineering from 25 to 1,000 people. When he says “something I was very good at is now free and

The parting words of Liu Bei, the legendary emperor of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms era, to his son and heir Liu Shan right before dying "Do not do a bad thing because it is small; do not neglect a good thing because it is small. Only through wisdom and virtue .....

This is what an EXCEPTIONAL mindset thinks like and sounds like. So impressive from a 22 years old. Not only you CAN control what you think, and how you think it and why, but you SHOULD. See your mind as a skill and practice it as such.

Pavel Durov sat with Lex Fridman for 4.5 hours, and I've watched it three times now. It is the most important tech founder interview ever. The man who owns 100% of the billion-user platform Telegram & runs it with 40 engineers. My notes: 𝟭. 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿

Andreessen is describing an organizational physics problem that most people misread as a leadership platitude. Every person inside a company who isn’t the CEO is being evaluated on execution against existing commitments. Their incentive is to protect current revenue, hit

If your father or mother is above 67, please pause and read this slowly. At that age, life begins to feel different for them. The world moves faster, but their bodies move slower. The things they once did effortlessly now require effort. Their strength is not what it used to be,

oh wow - i went to the sold out Open Claw meetup in NYC last night. let me tell you what i learned. 1) not a single person thinks that their setup is 100% secure 2) one openclaw expert said he has reviewed setups from cybersecurity experts and laughed. his statement to me

When Kampala Had a Pool Before It Had Pressure There was a time when Kampala had exactly what every ambitious city needs: optimism, a lake, and one swimming pool. The Silver Springs Hotel - Kampala’s third hotel in the 1950s -was not just a place to sleep. It was, in many ways,