How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):

Additional things to look for when evaluating a *marketplace* startup idea 1. 🤤 Demand PMF 2. 🤑 Supply PMF 3. ✨ Scalability with quality 4. 📈 High frequency and average order value 5. 🔒 Reasons to stay on-platform 6. 😏 Non-monogamy 7. 🧩 Fragmentation (thread)

Long live the King. #WakandaForever

No, I don't want to "learn fast", in any subject. I don't want shortcuts. If I don't enjoy the subject, I don't want to learn it; and if I enjoy it, I want to prolong the pleasure. I avoid what exam-takers do: I trade speed for depth.

"The majority of good ideas [towards human-level AI] will come from academia. Even if the most impressive applications come from industry." - Yann LeCun Yann LeCun

I concur!

Bootstrapping is about making something that is for someone, not everyone. #Bootstrapping #Entrepreneurship

The FDA has approved Biovica's DiviTum®TKa as an aid in monitoring disease progression in diagnosed female postmenopausal patients with hormone receptor-positive, metastatic breast cancer. #Biovica #FDA

$TGT Target Corp: Second quarter revenues grew 3.5 percent to $26.0 billion, with comparable store sales growth of 2.6 percent and comparable digital sales growth of 9.0 percent. quantwire.ai/news/znh2thw3b…

$ADSK AUTODESK, INC. ANNOUNCES FISCAL 2023 SECOND QUARTER RESULTS

“Once you hit around 50, your time here in the world is getting short. If nothing crazy happens, you’ve probably got about 30 more New Year’s Eve dinners left, roughly 1,500 weekends, maybe 10,000 more sunrises, and then it’s curtains. So yeah—it’s time to hit pause and actually

The surest path to misery is to 1) take for granted what you have, 2) anxiously strive for more, 3) think of yourself as a serious person doing serious things. Any one of these is harmful, but all three in combination is a living hell.

I’m 54, a physicist, have spent decades using mathematics to study the universe, solve problems, and build things. If your work touches numbers, now or in the future, and you want to learn math properly, this thread shows a from-the-ground-up math you’ll actually need:

In 1980, political scientist Robert Axelrod invited the world's top strategists to a competition. The goal: find the single best decision-making strategy for life. The winner stunned everyone ↓ Axelrod designed a tournament based on the prisoner's dilemma — a situation where

The highest form of existence is to have no desire to be understood, admired, pitied, or known.

The answer to a specific business question is, by definition, not in a book. But it can be synthesized, and the more inputs the better.

What Most Entrepreneurs Don't Know About Focus bit.ly/1JAO1fV My latest from Inc.

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Kinesiskt ordspråk.