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See all those initials…The people are talking. Sip slowly…#Walk good. 28all. Eya. *TH, KO, KB, JQ, SW, MB, JW* The Warm-Up: “Maybe you’re ready for it, but you’re not ready for it…you know you could be ready for the promotion, but not ready for the pressure, you can be ready for elevation, but not ready for haters, you can be ready for responsibility, but not be ready for being liked…[God’s like] I gotta make sure that your heart is good as your gift, I gotta make sure that your soul is as whole as your gift is, because if not your gift will lead you and put you in places and spaces that your heart is not mature enough to handle…” ~Dharius Daniels, I Didn’t See That Coming The Core: “Information doesn’t change your life. You do.” ~Jack Butcher “It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character.” ~Marcus Aurelius “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ~Mother Teresa “Enjoy the process along with the proceeds, because the process is where you live.” ~Charlie Munger “If you follow your intuition for what’s interesting, you’ll have a collection of knowledge nobody’s ever had before.” ~David Perell “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” ~Jack Welch “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” ~Maya Angelou “The reason you have a hard time trusting your intuition is because you are still convinced that some outside authority knows better than you.” ~Maryam Hasnaa “How can we have a real conversation if every time we speak I can see in your eyes that my words are not reaching you, they stop at a narrative you have created about me that is based on who I was many years ago?” ~Yung Pueblo “Let us hope and pray that the vast intelligence, imagination, humor, and courage of Americans will not fail us. Either we learn a new language of empathy and compassion, or the fire this time will consume us all.” ~Cornel West, Race Matters (1993) “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” ~Sun Tzu, The Art of War “There is a long history of economies being hit with downpours. But this is the first in which perhaps 70% of the economy has a sturdy umbrella while 30% is left to get soaked. It removes a ‘we’re-all-in-this-together’ aspect of the crises that’s key to recovery. It’s not easy to get everyone to cooperate when Covid-19 is a petty annoyance to some and a catastrophe to others. But that’s what we have now. So here we are.” ~Morgan Housel, Here We Are: 5 Stories That Got Us To Now “Most firms have reached out to Black founders directly on Twitter to take pitch meetings and offer office hours. Instead, start with diversity at your own firm…If you do not publicize the jobs that are available at your venture firm, then you are intentionally being exclusionary. It does not matter how much Black talent is available for hire. People can’t get a job that they don’t know exists. At Kapor Capital, our diversity is by design, our inclusion is intentional, and it starts with publicly posting available job openings…Awesome, you’ve got your house in order. Now, let’s talk about Black founders…” ~Brian Dixon, So You Want to Fund Black Founders “I hope, after all this, you all are on board with me, because I’m just getting started. I love racing. I love NASCAR. But sometimes change is good. Sometimes it’s the right thing. NASCAR’s been saying for years that it’s wanted to be more inclusive and more diverse. Now, we’re finally starting to see actions behind their words, and that’s making a lot of people tune in for the first time. I’m proud to be at the forefront of that. Not because I’m some hero or politician or whatever. No, man. Because I LOVE this sport. Listen, I’m new to all this. I’m still learning. But I’ve never been the guy to follow the crowd because it’s safe or easy, and I’m not going to start now. We’ve got a lot of work to do — but I’m ready for whatever. I may be tired now, but I’m energized for what the future holds. See you at the racetrack.” ~Bubba Wallace, Come Ride With Me Last Set: “This is a league in which 70 percent of players are Black but only three coaches, two general managers, and zero majority owners are; a league in which the response to Colin Kaepernick’s protest of police brutality was to promptly run him out of a job… ‘But I’ve always just had the confidence and believed in who I am. And I’ve known that I’m Black. And I’m proud to be Black. And I’m proud to have a white mom too. I’m just proud of who I am. And I’ve always had that confidence in myself.’” ~Clay Skipper, Patrick Mahomes, How Patrick Mahomes Became the Superstar the NFL Needs Right Now Food for Thought: “But again, it’s this difference between a culture that says look, this product is so amazing, it will define its own category, and other investors saying, when you look at this in a spreadsheet, it just doesn’t work. And I think one interesting thing in general in the search for alpha, is where do you get intuitions that are hard to make because there’s no natural person to think of it… And so one thing that’s taught me, is trying to be smarter than other people is very hard and it doesn’t work very often. Trying to have an insight that you get because you sit in a different information flow just seems exponentially easier.” ~Charlie Songhurst—Lessons from Investing in 483 Companies [Invest Like the Best, Ep. 181] Food for Thought II: “What breaks my heart the most about our country—if all that has transpired to date didn’t break my heart—is the fact that America’s forefathers could have chosen anything, and yet, they chose this. They wrote love letters to their wives, and yet, they didn’t include them in the governing documents of the nation. They knew the agony of slavery and the ravages of human suffering through their direct administration and profiteering, and yet, they chose to keep everyone in chains—both the slave and the slave master. They knew what I felt like to have taxation without self-determination and to yearn for the four winds of freedom and liberty, and yet, when given their chance to write America’s freedom, they only wrote of freedom for America’s White MANkind, and they knowingly missed the vast majority of America’s HUMANkind. They could have written anything. They could have formed anything, by anything. And yet they chose this. We have to ask ourselves…why? Why? Every generation has had a chance to make it right, and yet, we have chosen to slow walk freedom and equality under the law at every turn. We have to ask ourselves why. And make it right. For the first time.” ~Poem Written by: John Lee Gaston White, America’s First Taste of Milk and Honey
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