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What if your biggest blind spot is how you’re looking I: Many paths through In a long conversation with a friend, we started pitching startup ideas. We quickly realized that while we were both trying to solve meaningful problems, we had arrived at our ideas in completely different ways. *...
Reverse-engineering what really counts as “smart” I: The game In business undergrad, a third of your grades was based on in-class participation, which was scored across five tiers: * -1: You literally said something sexist. * 0: No contribution. * 1: A “case fact;” surfacing a relevant detail from the...
Why thoughtfulness demands sacrifice - a few thoughts across several days: I: Compliments that actually matter The best compliment I've received is "you’re great at using free time". I valued that compliment in an especially sincere way because I often think about how I should spend my free time: What...
I: Rooms I had been travelling for a year and a half before I considered what coming home would look like. Intending to maintain the growth solo-travel provided, I came up with a list of things to do once I was back at home. Scrawled onto that list was a...
I started collecting a list of once “secret” documents that were, in one way or another, broadly released (whether it be through legal process, government disclosures, leaks, or the ideas themselves eventually turned into books): * The analysis done by Deutsche Bank investors to predict the 2008 financial crisis (dramatized...
Most advice is bad. Whether it’s personal advice or business advice, you probably shouldn’t follow every piece you hear. While I recognize the irony of beginning this with a piece of my own advice, there’s a specific explanation as to why I’ve done this. Being selective about the advice you...
Once tested and proven, insulate good ideas from reality. Running I recently spoke with a very successful marathon runner who commonly wins races and consistently beats his own times. I asked for his tips, and he shared two: > “The first thing I do is run faster on the uphills....