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“Life lesson: don’t let things go unsaid because you think they’re obvious.” ~KW…28all. Eya. *PB, KW* The Warm-Up: “When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.” ~Steve Jobs The Core: “How you gonna win when you ain’t right within?” ~Lauryn Hill “Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.” ~Carl Jung “The narrative for this cycle is ‘this is the last cycle.’” ~Naval Ravikant “SpongeBob: What if I break your trust someday? Patrick: Trusting you is my decision, proving me wrong is your choice.” “Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.” ~John Ortberg “You won’t get what you want by forcing the process, you will get what you want by becoming someone who enjoys the process.” ~Orange Book “Compensation isn’t how you motivate someone to do great work, it’s how you reward and retain someone who can’t help but do great work.” ~Naval Ravikant “Sometimes self-love shows up as a willingness to release people who push you away, even if you had hoped for more from the relationship.” ~Michell C Clark “It’s not the ‘gatekeepers’ you’re worried about…it’s knowing that there’s a different door (path) you still have to find that’s bothering you. Your path is the greatest one you’ll ever create, not the one that gets approved by others.” ~Matt Gottesman “Be driven by possibility, not insecurities. Most of the world has a barrier because of what they feel they cannot do. Just taking the action, and refusing to see the same restrictions as others… -- will have you looking like you have some magic to you.” ~Dr. Julie Gurner “A great conversation isn’t an intellectual fight where both sides are trying to outsmart each other. It’s a respectful exchange where they are trying to bring out the best ideas and perspectives from each other, while also being grateful for the time spent with one another.” ~Orange Book “A somehow counter intuitive advice is to fire yourself every few years. It enables you to reassess your strategy and roadmap with a new perspective. Detach from past decisions and reassess entrenched practices. Question whether your strategic drivers, roadmaps, and processes remain relevant. Is the path you are on still the most effective?” ~Kpaxs “ ‘[Something] I’ve reflect[ed] on quite a bit is just kind of how lucky we are to be a part of the venture capital industry and the startup world simply because things change so fast. And if you’re a curious person, if you’re someone that likes constant learning, it’s really amazing. Like the stuff we’re talking about, the stuff I’m listening to podcasts on every day; you know, two years ago didn’t exist. And now it’s 80 or 90%, 80 or 90% of the dialogue. And that’s just pretty wild…’ ‘Well yeah, no it’s a you know our brains really aren’t programmed to work in kind of these exponentials right? I mean you and I both know every sell-side model on Wall Street has linear deceleration and growth rates like we think really uh you know we’re really good at thinking in kind of these these linear ways. I had that thought this morning that you know the biggest investment opportunities really do occur around these phase shift moments…” ~BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley, Ep4. Tesla FSD 12, Imitation AI Models, Open vs Closed AI Models, Delaware vs Elon, & Market Update Last Set: “Love: You have to be madly in love with you first. So in love that you feel compelled to share it. Love is a commitment to protecting another person’s heart with the same passion you use to guard your own. You cant commit to or protect my heart if you’re at war with yours. The more you love you, the better I can love you. It does us no good if I love you more than you like you…You wont believe mine is true because you cant see it in yourself! It all starts with you and it can only end as ‘us’ if you’re open enough to allow it to.” ~Rob Hill Sr. Food For Thought: “The great storytellers have an unfair competitive advantage. They are going to recruit better, they will be darlings in the press, they are going to raise money more easily and at higher prices, they are going to close amazing business developer partnerships, and they are going to have a strong and cohesive corporate culture. Perhaps more to the point, they are more likely to deliver a positive investment return.” ~Bill Gurley, In Defense of the Deck
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