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Goal-oriented people move faster. Growth-oriented people go further.
Goal-oriented people want the answer so they can "get it right" quickly. They skim.
Growth-oriented people want to see the process so they understand how, why, and intent. They understand.
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People who strive for excellence want to be developed not managed.
The more comfortable someone is with being managed, the lower the potential.
The more comfortable someone is managing others, the less likely they are to develop them.
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There are 3 primary drivers of results in life:
1) Your luck (randomness).
2) Your strategy (choices).
3) Your actions (habits).
Only 2 of the 3 are under your control.
But if you master those 2, you can improve the odds that luck will work for you rather than against you.
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1/ "Competitive strategy and valuation should be joined at the hip. The litmus test of a good strategy is that it creates value. You can’t really do a valuation without understanding the economics of a business and the industry."
Quotes 1/-6/ are all from Michael Mauboussin.
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"Decisions:• If you can’t decide, the answer is no.• If two equally difficult paths, choose the one more painful in the short term (pain avoidance is creating an illusion of equality).• Choose the path that leaves you more equanimous in the long term." - @naval
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Your teaching ability is constrained by your writing ability.
If you can’t write it down, it will be nearly impossible to teach it to others.
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Negotiation Tips
-You want leverage.
-The person who creates more value has leverage.
-The person who can walk away has leverage.
-The person who is irreplaceable has leverage.
-The person who has a second option has leverage.
-The person who knows the numbers has leverage.
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Sources of new ideas:
- Extended conversations with others
- Reading broadly (new fields)
- Detailed (in the weeds) knowledge
- Time away from the computer
- Things that divide people
- Talking with relatively new people to a craft
- Traveling
- Old ideas/books
What about you?
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Sources of personal competitive advantage:
- delayed gratification
- capital
- network (who you know)
- unique skills or combinations
- platform
- ability to suffer
- family / home life
- speed
- ability to change your mind
- ability to learn/adapt
What am I missing?
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A rare interactive tool that’s actually useful. Map of philosophy, so us mediocres don’t lose the plot of who agreed with whom and refuted whomst denizcemonduygu.com/philo/br…
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learn deep learning: course.fast.ai/
computational linear algebra: github.com/fastai/numerical-…
data science career advice: fast.ai/topics/#advice
myths about AI: bit.ly/myths-AI
biased AI: bit.ly/AI-biased
debunking the pipeline myth: bit.ly/not-pipeline
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Blockchains are like DNA. Both are replicated data stores, accumulate transactions (payments vs mutations), and have immutable global states secured by an algorithm (PoW vs natural selection)
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The Princeton Bitcoin textbook is now available on Amazon: amazon.com/Bitcoin-Cryptocur…
Draft still free online: d28rh4a8wq0iu5.cloudfront.ne…
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Nice slides on SMAC. with examples. Thanks @Dataczar shrd.by/8clRkM