PayPal Mafia culture -- as explained by the people who lived it: 1. Extreme Focus 2. Dedication to individual accomplishment 3. Refusal to accept constraints, external or internal 4. Radical transparency on metrics 5. Meritocratic opportunity 6. Vigorous Debate

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The longest conversation you will have in your life will be the ones you have in your mind with yourself. Knowing this, practice having the **correct** conversations that improve your life. ... starting yesterday.

Cam Ward... No flashy jewelry. No flashy suit. No flashy girlfriend hogging the attention. Just a regular suit, thin chain, alma mater pin, and his parents by his side. Yeah he's playing 20 years of pro bowl football.

Zvao sam Darka Babalja.Kulturno pričali.Izvinuo se na vrijeđanje mog brata,na osnovu fizičkog rasta.Složili se da nam ne treba srpska svađa.Rakiju dogovorili. Neće braću Kojiće niko dirati,nikad!

I took M&A law while at Duke Law. Our professor, a longtime tenured professor who was very well respected in the field, taught us that LOIs were a waste of time and presented too much enforceability risk to the parties. He told us to go to BigLaw and tell the partners to skip

Be a Pro Early in my career, an older mentor told me, "Be a pro." I nodded like I understood, but I didn’t know what he meant. As time has gone on, I’ve learned more about what it means to be a pro. Being a pro is about recognizing that everything you do sends a signal about

"Tužna stvar ovih postkomunističkih društava je da ti od starijih nemaš šta da naučiš, jer su to jednostavno propale generacije." Tačno i pretačno!

Wokeness will seem such a joke in retrospect that many people won't believe it was ever a serious problem. Even many of the participants will forget. But it really was a big problem.

one thing that serendipitously helped Soros become a cultural leviathan is that as a failed philosopher he simply kept at it even as he was accumulating wealth, so by the time he started deploying capital in culture, his metatheories were generally quite highbrow still other

In it’s heyday, Goldman’s special situations group was the navy SEALs of money making. Today’s guest, Alan Waxman, used to run that group before leaving to build Sixth Street, now a $115b behemoth. SSG heads were sometimes of the more brainy, nerdy variety. Not Waxman. He is a

I tell juniors all the time - urgency and responsiveness are the two most important things in finance. Treat things that need a detailed and fast response seriously and you'll stand out before it becomes table stakes.

A lot of young people want to be great investors but refuse to narrow their scope They are constantly chasing the newest trend: semis, AI, crypto, quantum Just remember that trying to become an expert in everything is the same as being good at nothing Here is my unsolicited

Secret weapon for life: Be the type of person who's easy to be around. Speak when it adds value. Be quiet when you have something to learn. Stay calm when things go sideways. Laugh more than you complain. Most of all, be steady. Steady wins trust. Trust wins everything.

Народна скупштина Републике Српске би ојачала своју земљу да данас затражи смјену свих партијски запослених на свим нивоима власти злоупотребом закона. Годину дана пуног поштовања закона, јавног конкурса, струке и нормалности и Република Српска била би јача него икад. Овај

Омањи снијег и пола земље нам је паралисано. Небитно је више која власт је у питању. Ентитет, дистрикт или државна заједница. Неодговорност, јавашлук и цинизам су дошли по своје. Правимо генерације које не знају ставити ланце на гуме, којима је учење спрдња, које од читања

Boring_Business the skill compression is real. spreadsheets are democratizing down to ai. sales is the remaining moat because it's still about trust networks and human judgment. technical skills become commoditized, soft skills become leverage

Slowly coming to realize that the people who are considered the best in their field are there not because of IQ or a random burst of genius It is just consistency. Showing up everyday, doing the boring tasks that no one sees, and then doing it over and over again This type of

> be Larry Fink > born 1952, Van Nuys, son of a shoe salesman > average student, UCLA PolSci degree (useless), pivots to MBA > joins First Boston, literally helps invent the mortgage-backed security > generates $1B in profit, becomes youngest Managing Director in history > 1986:

you have to admire how Peter Thiel has been complaining about woke since like 1980 but now that it's no longer socially costly and his side is actually winning he's gone totally mute on the matter... true contrarian patriot in it simply for the love of the game