Bill Belichick & Ray Dalio
“People see the result, not the effort. But it’s the effort that chisels you. It makes you who you are.” — Kamal Ravikant
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✍️ Articles
33: I shared 33 quotes that impacted me over the past year.
Three Questions for Netflix Co-Founder Marc Randolph: Great/short Q&A that gets you inside the mind of Netflix’s co-founder.
A few years ago, I decided I would try to change my mind about something at least once a month – and that turned out to be way too easy.
💭 Miscellaneous
What are you measuring your staff and players on? What metrics is their compensation based on? (source)
…what doesn’t get measured has a good chance of being ignored. Executives are busy people and as long as their compensation remains only marginally tied to nonfinancial metrics, we shouldn’t expect them to pay much attention to these metrics. And as long as executives don’t pay attention, their corporate purpose statements remain largely hot air
Rick Rubin on happiness (source)
“It’s hard to get really depressed until your dreams come true. Once your dreams come true and you realize you feel the same way you did before then you get a feeling of hopelessness because you feel like “I have this empty hole in me but if I get to do this thing this is gonna fill that hole,” then one in a million get to do that thing, and then you do that thing and then you realize, “oh I feel exactly the same.” Most people who are really driven for something are doing it because they think it’s going to satisfy something in them, yet most worldly things tend not to be so satisfying”
📺 Video
Ray Dalio & Bill Belichick on Building Great Teams (44 minutes): This is as good as I thought it’d be.
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