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Everything ~Mary J. Blige.... 28all. Eya. *JS, JD* The Warm-Up: “The first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ‘em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form.” ~Charlie Munger The Core: “ ‘When a lamb goes to the slaughter, the lamb might kill the butcher,’ the owner said, ‘But we always bet on the butcher.’” ~Scott Patterson, The Quants “Everybody has a choice. You can choose to be good, you can choose to be great, you can choose to be elite. He chose to be elite.” ~Brian Kelly on Jayden Daniels’ work ethic “Good advice is not ‘one size fits all,’ it’s tailored to the individual. It’s rooted in empathy and understanding, not judgement. It comes from a space of love, not fear.” ~Michell C Clark “Years ago, a mentor said to me: ‘It’s your job to have the highest quality standards of anybody you work with. Every day, you’ll face pressure to lower them. Don’t do it. If you can set a high standard and simply maintain it, you’ll do very well for yourself.’” ~David Perell “Many people suffer in silence for years, never get rewarded at all. Pain alone is not enough to turn around your life. You need the courage to leave your old circumstances behind. You need the perseverance to keep trying when things aren’t getting better. You need to take risks.” ~Orange Book “A college classmate is raising a pre-seed; I’ve given him feedback on his deck & made intros. Yday he texted me ‘hey curious, why are you helping me? This is free game you’re giving away.’ I said if I can’t help others & add seats to the table then what was the f*cking point?” ~Isa Watson “In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time – none, zero. You’d be amazed at how much Warren reads – and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I’m a book with a couple of legs sticking out.” ~Charles T. Munger “Robert Greene writes: ‘The greatest impediment to creativity is your impatience, the almost inevitable desire to hurry up the process, express something, and make a splash.’ An important thing about this topic is that most great things in life – from love to careers to investing—gain their value from two things: patience and scarcity. Patience to let something grow, and scarcity to admire what it grows into. But what are two of the most common tactics when people pursue something great? Trying to make it faster and bigger. It’s always been a problem, and always will be. Same as ever…” ~Morgan Housel, Same As Ever Last Set: “Your discernment will have you making better decisions…your intuition will be a key factor in those decisions. Your intuition will have you make a better life…your discernment will be a key factor in that life.” ~Matt Gottesman Food For Thought: My man Jay sent me On Becoming a Wife on Monday night… “[DO’s] wife wrote this. Absolutely beautiful,” he wrote. I then read it myself and sent it to my absolutely beautiful wife. She responded, “Whew I have chills, that was so beautifully written, I relate to a lot that she shared…we can debrief when you’re back…I love those questions they asked each other.” Just sip this piece slowly. And yes, I have Everything currently playing as I curate this. “As a child, from what I could see, the light of a woman was often dimmed or put out by the unearned power of a man. Mental note after mental note reminded me to have my own money, own my time, and carry my own heart. My healthy distrust of men and worthy aversion to heartbreak created in me a fortress that I knew would be impenetrable. That is, until I met Daniel… In this new chapter I commit my love to my husband and align myself with nature’s eternal way — simply being. I dedicate these words to Breonna Taylor. In the wake of her murder, I read that she wanted to play the song Everything by Mary J. Blige at her wedding. This moved me to tears. How often — in our lives and with our lives — are the simple joys taken away from us as Black women. I do not fault myself or any Black woman for the hardness around our hearts. I instead dedicate my life to creating opportunities for our collective freedom. On my wedding day, I played this song for her.” ~Taylor K Shaw, On Becoming a Wife
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