The gating resource here was not capital, Thiel said. The gating resource was the ideas and the people and executing it well. It’s not like lawsuits haven’t been brought in the past. It’s something th...
The great strategist Saul Alinsky believed that if you push a negative hard enough and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.
The implications of our obstacle are theoretical -- they exist in the past and the future. We live in the moment. And the more we embrace that, the easier the obstacle will be to face and move. You ca...
The investor and serial entrepreneur Ben Horowitz put it more bluntly: The hard thing isn’t setting a big, hairy, audacious goal. The hard thing is laying people off when you miss the big goal.… The...
The job of a journalist would be unbearable if one was always to put oneself in the shoes of a subject.
The majority of my generation decides to move back in with their parents after college. Unemployment, for them, is twice the national average. According to one 2011 study by the University of Michigan...
The mind must be given relaxation—it will rise improved and sharper after a good break. Just as rich fields must not be forced—for they will quickly lose their fertility if never given a break—so cons...
The more forgiving and tolerant you can be of others—the more you can be aware of your various privileges and advantages—the more helpful and patient you will be.
The more things we desire and the more we have to do to earn or attain those achievements, the less we actually enjoy our lives—and the less free we are.
The most critical part of this system was the belief that you, the student who has sought out Stoicism, have the most important job: to be good! To be wise. To remain the person that philosophy wished...
The next time you are afraid of some supposedly disastrous outcome, remember that if you don’t control your impulses, if you lose your self-control, you may be the very source of the disaster you so f...
The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition. What holds you back? The Physical? Size. Race. Distance. Disability. Money. T...
The power of being a student is not just that it is an extended period of instruction, it also places the ego and ambition in someone else’s hands.
The purpose of Shamrock’s formula is simple: to get real and continuous feedback about what they know and what they don’t know from every angle. It purges out the ego that puffs us up, the fear that m...
The race has changed. The prize and spoils no longer go to the person who makes it to market first. They go to the person who makes it to Product Market Fit first.
The reason subscription (and RSS) was abandoned was because in a subscription economy the users are in control. In the on-off model, the competition might be more vicious, but its on the terms of the...
The tools of the Internet and social media have made it possible to track, test, iterate, and improve marketing to the point where these enormous gambles are not only unnecessary, but insanely counter...
The unrestricted person, who has in hand what they will in all events, is free. But anyone who can be restricted, coerced, or pushed into something against what they will is a slave. —EPICTETUS, DISCO...
Then what makes a beautiful human being? Isn’t it the presence of human excellence? Young friend, if you wish to be beautiful, then work diligently at human excellence. And what is that? Observe those...
There are a few things to keep in mind when faced with a seemingly insurmountable obstacle. We must try:To be objectiveTo control emotions and keep an even keelTo choose to see the good in a situation...
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