Sam Altman on learning to think independently

Peter Thiel on the difference between the best founders and “professional CEOs” In his book Zero To One, which is approaching its 10-year anniversary, Thiel wrote: “We need founders. If anything, we should be more tolerant of founders who seem strange or extreme. We need

Jason Calacanis shares a very powerful story about one of the darkest periods in Elon Musk's life when Tesla & SpaceX were on the verge of bankruptcy.

Life Hack: Seek out what makes you uncertain, afraid, or uncomfortable.

Interesting book on topic of Life’s Work: “Most of the people whom we admire in history did not have easy lives; rather, we admire them for what they embodied through their lives. They won their way through, through the difficulties, to bring those values, those witnesses,

Jack Dorsey on turning an idea into a reality.

Jeff Bezos’s two pieces of advice for aspiring entrepreneurs “The advice that I would give entrepreneurs is don't chase the hot new thing. It's so hard to catch something that everybody already knows is hot. Instead, position yourself and wait for the wave to come to you.” The

Steve Jobs on the Crazy Ones.

Jony Ive: “You have to reject reason to innovate” “If it hasn’t been done and it’s of value, there’s really good reasons it’s not been done. And so when you’re confronted with those reasons, you’ve got two choices. You can say, ‘Oh, that’s a very good reason, I’m sorry for

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iPhone co-creator Tony Fadell explains why you should “run away from great ideas” “In this world, there are so many people who have more ideas than they have time to implement… I used to be like that. But the best ideas are the ones that you can really focus on… So I try to

“Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.” Ernest Shackleton

2016: Thiel took a chance on a 'political startup' named Trump. 2024: That startup IPO’d. ;) Check out my one and only article on Medium from back then. It’s got the backstory! medium.com/@rokosz/thiels…

Rudyard Kipling later in life, evergreen

"Startups don't die when they run out of cash, they die when the founders run out of energy." Naval

Software engineers will respond to AI the way artists responded to photography - with madness

Søren Kierkegaard, straight in my veins

made a graph that shows how to find meaning