“ ‘Are you busy tomorrow?’ My dear, that entirely depends on the rest of the information you’re about to give me…” #YS.…Walk good. 28all. Eya.*WM, CK, MB, ET, JD*

The Warm-Up: 

“Rules for 2021. You are by far the best choice you can keep making. The only option you have left is to do the work yourself. We’re never going back to the way things were so it’s all about what you will create moving forward. Now would be a good time to establish your morals and value and participate in them. Integrity is one of the most valuable and overlooked currencies. Use it, be it, seek it, honor it.” ~Matt Gottesman

The Core: 

“They can’t copy your discipline.” ~Shane Parrish

“Some things being labeled as #CancelCulture are actually examples of #Accountability.” ~Bernice King

“You don’t need a website, or a business plan, or investors, or an office, not even a business name. You need a client.” ~@Wisdom Theory

“Tom Brady has beaten 17 different teams in the playoffs. He’s beaten more teams than any QB has total wins in playoff history.” ~@SportsCenter

“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” ~Erik Hoffer

“It takes a tremendous amount of work to educate citizens to resist the powerful pull of believing what they already believe, or what others around them believe, or what would make sense of their own previous choices.” ~Timothy Snyder, The American Abyss

“Success isn’t an end state. Success is having the freedom to focus on the grind you actually enjoy. Most people should spend way less energy trying to get rich and way more energy building a tight-knit friend group that will be with them until old age.” ~Julian Shapiro

“Hard to overstate how much easier it is to get into doing real estate deals if you’re from a RE family. Obviously, the capital, connections & know-how help a lot. But, probably more valuable is knowing in your bones, because it’s right in your face, that success is possible.” ~Moses Kagan

“A hard thing to wrap your head around in economics is the idea that two opposite things can be true at once. Consumers are in the best shape they’ve been in, ever. A huge portion of consumers think that’s bogus because they’re in the worst shape they’ve been in, ever. Both are true. Two different worlds.” ~Collaborative Team, Two Worlds: So Much Prosperity, So Much Skepticism

“That ingenuity is the other side of being oppressed. At the end of the day, that’s the thing that unites Black people. Being a have-not forces you to think and see the world differently, and it makes Black people naturally creative and creators in ways that they’re not even trying. It’s just the way that they operate.” ~Aniyia Williams, How Black users are saving Clubhouse from becoming a drab hangout for tech bros (written by Salvador Rodriguez)

“The power of a bull market is that it lifts all boats which allows you to succeed even while making mistakes. The power of embedding yourself is that will build relationships and know who to listen to or learn from. In retrospect, it won’t always be clear if you were smart or lucky but that isn’t the point. The goals are to learn and generate returns, not to have perfect clarity.” ~Tod Sacerdoti, Investing in Public: Non-Obvious Lessons from 100+ Angel Investments

“The thing about capital market predictions is that they are to an extent self-fulfilling. By deciding that Amazon, Tesla, and their promising companies are winners, the markets lower those companies’ cost of capital, increase the value of their compensation (via stock options), and enhance their ability to acquire what they cannot build themselves. And there is an incredible amount of capital looking for a home right now.” ~Scott Galloway, Post Corona, From Crisis to Opportunity

“Only in leaving that house did I come to know in my bones that the peril in being silenced was far greater than that of living loud enough to shatter those walls and bring the whole house down. There is tremendous release in speaking, in letting go of judgements of others, in the heroism of being willing to heal. It is only in speaking of violence that the cycle can be broken instead of replicated day after day in our subconscious, year after year in our lives.” ~Michele Harper, The Beauty in Breaking

“But I had another realization: One of my colleagues was talking about how she had instructed her staff to wear just regular casual clothes in case they needed to blend in with the crowd at any point, and she herself was wearing black pants and a black turtleneck because she wanted to fit in if she needed to. And when I saw that description, I thought to myself … ‘that’s not an option for me. That’s not an option …’” ~Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal on surviving the siege, ‘It Was No Accident’ [written by Rebecca Traister]

Last Set: 

“We would like to believe that we would have taken the more difficult path of standing up against injustice in defense of the outcaste. But unless people are willing to transcend their fears, endure discomfort and derision, suffer the scorn of loved ones and neighbors and co-workers and friends, fall into disfavor of perhaps everyone they know, face exclusion and even banishment, it would be numerically impossible, humanly impossible, for everyone to be that man. What would it take to be him in any era? What would it take to be him now?” ~Isabel Wilkerson, Caste

Food for Thought I: 

“The world is increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more? How do you sell anti-ageing moisturizer? You make someone worry about ageing. How do you get people to vote for a political party? You make them worry about immigration. How do you get them to buy insurance? By making them worry about everything. How do you get them to have plastic surgery? By highlighting their physical flaws. How do you get them to watch a TV show? By making them worry about missing out. How do you get them to buy a new smartphone? By making them feel like they are being left behind. To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business.” ~Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive