SwirlyPretzel

Weekend musings - edition #2

Hello, Friday is here and so is one pick of mine to read as we get ready for the weekend. This is one of the lists I like to refer to every now and then.

https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful

Please share thoughts. Share your read for the weekend too!

17mo ago

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WigglyBanana

Stealth17mo

Good to see you again @Toph56
Hope its been a good week

A video recommendation (sorry) this time: https://youtu.be/HZcXup7p5-8

Vinod Khosla in conversation at Stanford; one of those people that questions everything fundamentally, and gives genuinely good advice to everybody at the outset of career

SwirlyPretzel

Stealth17mo

Hey @AlphaGrindset ! Good to see you again.

Thanks for the share. Will watch and share take aways for the group.

I have been intrigued by VK since I started reading the book - “The Power Law” which is on the US VC industry. Keen to learn more.

SwirlyPretzel

Stealth17mo

Interesting one!

He comes across as belligerent and blunt as he claims - guess he can indulge without a care. 😅 some things I liked -

All interesting things happen at the edge of the systems - maybe at the intersection of fields
Failures don’t matter, success does. Anything worth trying is hard. With enough persistence most impossible things will be possible.
Have a belief system and an internal compass to drive your decisions / vision.

GoofyDonut

Stealth17mo

Love this thread, sharing a good read about burnout

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Faninjusticemag.com%2Fburned-out-how-modern-life-is-killing-us-a336b8346efb

SwirlyPretzel

Stealth17mo

Interesting - “The insidious logic of achievement permanently forces us to get ahead of ourselves. Once we have achieved something, we want to achieve more, that is, we want to get ahead of ourselves yet again.”

I wish there were solutions to do better. :(