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So Jah S’eh…28all. Eya. *CS* The Warm-Up: “Revel in being discarded, or having all your energies exhausted in vain; only those who have endured hardship will be of use. Samurai who have never erred before will never have what it takes.” ~Hagakure The Core: “At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.” ~Chuck Yeager “No one reached their potential by working on their weakness.” ~John Maxwell “In the long term, you can’t get better results than your consistency.” ~Shane Parrish “The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.” ~John Kenneth Galbraith “You can do two things, you can pout, or you can go out there and respond.” ~Klay Thompson on coming off the bench “You don’t need to do more…you often need to do less…but better. Eliminate everything that distracts you. Double down on everything that promotes you.” ~Matt Gottesman “Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don’t—and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.” ~Rebecca Solnit “Whenever you look back, you realize there were many opportunities to change your life for the better: you were just either not ready because you didn’t respect yourself enough to invest more in yourself earlier, or you didn’t notice because you were distracted by other people.” ~Orange Book “2 of the largest pools of capital in the world, considering public tech in size for the 1st time, alongside VC/tech buyouts. The sentiment ‘massive winners in the AI Super cycle wont just be in private markets’ starting to shift allocations.” ~Meghan Reynolds, heard from VC LPs this week “If you think about the role of randomness in the world, there’s so much that’s not in your control. But one thing that’s within your control is the quality of your output. You should have a simple goal of putting out a product that’s the highest quality you can.” ~Howard Marks; David Perell when he asked Howard Marks about his writing “There are huge advantages for the early birds. When you’re an early bird, there’s a model that I call surfing. When a surfer gets up and catches the wave *and just stays there*, he can go a long, long time. But if he gets off the wave, he becomes mired in shallows. But people get long runs when they’re right on the edge of the wave, whether it’s Microsoft or Intel or all kinds of people. Surfing is a very powerful model.” ~Charlie Munger (heard on David Senra’s, Founders) “I’m an All-Star when you need the All-Star to show up — in the playoffs. You want the best to step up (then), right? And I think I do a good job of that. So I kind of backed myself up in that way. That’s it. That’s what it is. So it’s just more fuel to the fire…But (not being selected an All-Star) doesn’t hurt me like that, psychologically. I haven’t made it for so long, and I’m a champion. And I’m on the best team in the world playing with the best player in the world (in Jokić).” ~Jamal Murray on not making the All-Star Team, via The Athletic Last Set: “Following in the footsteps of those that came before...No matter how hard you try, you can’t. After just a few steps, you’ll be slightly enlarging the footprint. By the time six people have done it, the original is completely gone. Footprints might be a fine compass, but they’re not much of a map. That’s on us.” ~Seth Godin Food For Thought: “Clark just made history by passing Plum – with a career-high 49 points at home on Thursday against Michigan – as the all-time leading scorer in NCAA Division I women’s basketball. But this historic milestone is more significant than just scoring more points than anyone else. Clark has changed and elevated the game to heights not imaginable to the women of the 1970s, 1980s, or even the early 2000s. Someday, her record might be broken by USC’s JuJu Watkins or some young girl now dribbling a ball with a dream inspired by Clark…But Clark’s record-breaking career won’t be forgotten, and we are all lucky to be able to watch and appreciate it. Appreciate her. Enjoy Caitlin Clark. Another might score more points in the future, but we will never see the likes of her again. Ever. She is – and has been – that significant to the game of basketball.” ~Jay Bilas reflects on Caitlin Clark’s NCAA scoring record
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