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Rumble, young man rumble…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *JP* The Warm-Up: “You don’t control the mountain, only the climb.” ~Shane Parrish The Core: “A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” ~Ansel Adams “Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes.” ~Carl Jung “Haters are confused admirers who want to be like you.” ~Paulo Coelho “The five most important skills are reading, writing, arithmetic, persuasion, and programming.” ~Naval Ravikant “Whenever you get the urge to start comparing…remember, it’s the outlier who does great things.” ~Dr. Julie Gurner “Venture firms: if your DEI manager is Black, but no one on your investing team is, you’re doing it wrong.” ~Arlan Hamilton “Caring more about looking happy on social media than actually being happy in real life might just be the greatest mistake our generation continue to make.” ~Steven Bartlett “When you’re open and teachable, your possibilities are limitless. When you’re convinced you already know everything, you place a ceiling over yourself.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant “Allow other people to not like you, not approve of you, and not agree with you. You don’t try to make people be okay with you because you are okay with who you are.” ~Kpaxs “Metaverse: concepts that might create billion-dollar companies in 5-10years. Web-3: billion-dollar orgs building things that might have users in 5-10 years. Rest of tech: billion-dollar companies being created deploying concepts from 5-10 years ago.” ~Benedict Evans “Someone once told me that ‘Alpha = Perception — Reality’. Forgive me, I can’t remember who said this (we’ll update the post if someone can claim it), but I think this is a really insightful way to think about efficient markets…Building a startup is highly competitive. When markets are stable and mature they are incredibly difficult to change. A new upstart rarely has a chance if it’s competing with titans on their own turf. Great companies, however, see opportunities before the broader market recognizes them. They see a catalyst open the door for opportunity, determine how it creates a new need in the market for them to exploit and sprint to fill it with the hard work of amazing people. They turn the unseen edge of a market into the widely accepted reality. Finding that opportunity before it’s obvious is where the alpha exists.” ~Rick Zullo (GP & Co-founder at Equal Ventures), What Matters Most: How We Develop Conviction at Seed Last Set: “Most people fail trying to do the small things that would give someone else confidence that they can do the bigger things that they are supposed to do. Do what you’re supposed to do.” ~Anonymous Food For Thought: “Do you remember all the elements you didn’t used to notice? It might be the way you see typography now, or the tuning of an orchestra. Or the alignment in the mouldings of a house you’re inspecting or the way an engine sounds… (or whether you put a ‘u’ in moulding). Expertise is about learning new ways to notice. Often, once we learn to see, we assume we’ve always known. And that allows us to believe that the things we can’t see, we’ll never be able to see. But it doesn’t work that way unless we get complacent. There’s always something just below the surface, the elements that most people simply don’t notice. But we can if we choose.” ~Seth Godin, The things you cant see :: We appreciate your readership. You can learn more about the MML here. To the extent someone felt compelled to spread the love and this was forwarded to you, you can sign up for the newsletter here.
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