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We’re born looking like our parents, but we die looking like our choices…#elevationchurch. Walk good. 28all. Eya. *JS, MM* Note to the Reader: Sip slowly. I had many thoughts about this edition. Considered making it longer, considered making it shorter. Considered surprising yall with an additional edition later today. Thought about even dropping one tomorrow. I decided to let it rock. I curated what I felt felt right. I encourage you to click / read the links. Many of these quotes and articles gave me chills, some for obvious reasons and some not so obvious. Yet, it hit me all the same. I encourage you to call someone you love today and / or tomorrow just to let them know that you are thinking about them. I encourage you to show gratitude even for the smallest moments today. We’re all just trying to put one foot in front of the other. Or as Uncle J says, “it’s just how we like it”… The Warm-Up: “Someone, somewhere is going to die tragically because they stepped on the wrong side of the street. Perfection has long left the building. But if you’re living life and you’re out and doing things, and you have friends and family, you [can] still find the joy in life.” ~Jimmy Dunne :: Jon Wertheim, Saving Par The Core: “The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.” ~Baltasar Gracian “The goal is freedom. The path is consistency. The reward is peace of mind.” ~Orange Book “Nothing, not all the armies of the world, can stop an idea whose time has come.” ~Victor Hugo “It’s not answers you’re looking for, but clarity. Answers change from moment to moment, but clarity is always directional.” ~Matt Gottesman “No amount of books can replace actual experience: travel, talk to people, love, invest, create, don’t take yourself too seriously.” ~Orange Book “As general semanticists have been saying for decades, words don’t contain meanings. The meanings are not in words. They are in the people using the words.” ~Al Reis & Jack Trout, Positioning “ ‘This time it’s different,’ are always famous last words, but besides being the same ‘index’ there’s very little in common with the S&P 500 of today and that of 30–40 years ago.” ~John Street Capital, The Everything Bubble & TINA 2.0 “The best advice I got in college was ‘Find the best teachers and take all their classes, no matter the subject.’ This advice works on the Internet too. Binge the work of your favorite creators, even if the ideas don’t originally interest you.” ~David Perell “Not sure who needs to hear this but to be GREAT at anything, you must be ALL IN. The world is loaded with CEOs, fund managers, founders, athletes…who were ALL IN and great. ‘Success’ happened, now they are NOT all in, yet people expect them to be great again. Wont happen.” ~Paul Enright “A fact multiplied by a story always equals something less than a fact. So almost all predictions have less than a 100% chance of coming true. That’s not a bold statement, but if you embrace it it always pushes you towards room for error and the ability to endure surprise.” ~Morgan Housel, A Number From Today and A Story About Tomorrow “Some ambitious, intelligent people find themselves trapped in situations where their future looks bleak. So what do they generally do? They try harder. They try to compensate by long hours of hard work and effort. The secret of success is to keep your nose to the grindstone, do your job better than the next person, and fame and fortune will come your way, right? Wrong. Trying harder is rarely the pathway to success. Trying smarter is the better way.” ~Al Reis & Jack Trout, Positioning “When I published, I received a flood of ‘me too’ and ‘I needed your advice’ personal stories by email and private message. It just reminded me that we all put on the face we think we should have, and it’s actually a competitive advantage to be authentically and proudly yourself. It provides more space for others with your background to believe that they can succeed and to see how they can succeed.” ~Ed Zimmerman, How To Start A VC: Interview With Maya Horgan Famodu, Founder, Ingressive Capital “Playing such original, sensitive, vulnerable characters not only expanded our universe of Black masculinity but also bled into Williams’s own life, making it hard for him to separate the craft from its creator. He had said that the pressures of playing Omar helped bring on an existential crisis, and a relapse. Perhaps his empathy became expressed as addiction, his talent its own form of torture. ‘The characters that mean the most to me are the ones that damn near kill me,’ he said in 2017. ‘It’s a sacrifice I’ve chosen to make.’” ~By Salamishah Tillet, Michael K. Williams Brought His Whole Life to His Characters “Mistaking a temporary trend for a competitive advantage, when serendipity masquerades as skill…Excessive ego in a world where humility is the impressive trait that catches people’s attention… Being blind to the stress, struggle, doubt, and failure your role models deal with…Taking your cues and insights from people playing a different game than you are…Thinking that saying ‘I don’t know’ when you don’t know is a character flaw…Assuming statistics alone can persuade other people when what really changes minds are stories…Ignorance of the fact that different phases of your career require different skill sets.” ~Morgan Housel, Little Flaws “It’s very difficult to deal with a lot of things that are thrust upon you when you have a degree of success. Things in your family dynamics change. You’re still learning and growing. You’re going through a lot at 21, 22, 23, 24, just as a human being. And now you’re dealing with it on the world stage. So, there’s absolutely challenges to be dealt with and adversities to overcome at that age. Even at 44, you’re dealing with different things and adversities. And now you have kids, wives and off-field stuff like we all do in our careers. So, life has its challenges for all of us. You just hope that people can manage them and get through them in as healthy way of a way as possible and that you can learn from them and that they make you into a more self-aware person. And that’s obviously what I hope for Simone and Naomi.” ~Tom Brady :: Jarrett Bell, Tom Brady voices support for Naomi Osaka, Simone Biles on mental health issues Last Set: “Your next job is to find what they both missed so you can fill in the holes. Neither knew boundaries, so I taught myself. Neither knew forgiveness, so I taught myself. And lastly, it’s ok if it doesn’t work. This is not something that should make you suffer. The purpose of connecting is to bring clarity, love and development to your life. He was broken before when he couldn’t give you the love you need. He may still be broken now. It’s ok to take the boundary and prioritize your own mental state. If you realize the relationship doesn’t feed you, let it go until and unless that changes. Just make sure you’ve forgiven so you can be whole.” ~Maya Horgan Famodu, How to Meet your Father for the First Time in your 20’s Food For Thought: “Bitcoin bears will often point to MySpace / Facebook, or Blackberry | Nokia versus Apple, to highlight that the ‘first’ technology doesn’t always win. That shows a fundamental misunderstanding of Bitcoin’s purpose as a store of value. You can’t replicate Bitcon’s origin story with an anonymous founder, who would be amongst the richest people in the world and ~12 years in still hasn’t sold any BTC, a fair launch with no VC’s, where anyone in the world had the ability to participate, done completely open-sourced with volunteers on a global basis, dedicated to see the ‘project’ through, with 0 FTE, and 0 marketing budget. Subsequent attempts have been funded by venture funds, early crypto whales, with central points of failure, and known teams, which really violates that ‘sovereign-grade censorship resistant’ property needed to compete with gold. It’s not technology that will win this, it’s security of the network & decentralization, where Bitcoin has what looks to be an insurmountable lead.” ~John Street Capital, The Everything Bubble & TINA 2.0 Food For Thought II: Michael K. Williams on Being Typecast—Gave me chills watching this years later, especially given his recent death. :: We appreciate your readership. 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