“Assuming stability is one of the ways ruins get made. Resilience accommodates the unexpected.” — John Lewis Gaddis
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✍️ Articles
Do not love half lovers: This is an incredible read on being yourself and embracing your curiosities in life. I read last four paragraphs (after the poems) 5x.
“To be fully ourselves, then, is a thunderous feat. It is to resist the inertia of comfort and conformity and half-lived lives; to engage in the deliberate, demanding act of self-authorship rather than assuming a role that has already been written; to allow the muffled voices inside us to sing louder and louder, until our lives are suffused with song.”
🎙️ Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast: #405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin. Listen to arguably the greatest entrepreneur of all-time talk about building Amazon, the keys to his success, his routine and more. NOTE: check the timestamps if you listen - the first 1:18:55 is about his interest in space with Blue Origin, but the rest is 100% applicable to you and absolutely incredible. P.S. - yes, he declined my podcast request 😁 [December 2023 - 131 minutes] Apple | Spotify | YouTube
“You have to seek truth even when it’s uncomfortable.” — Jeff Bezos
Invest Like The Best: A Conversation with Charlie Munger & John Collison: Listen to Stripe co-founder John Collison interview Charlie Munger, which coincided with the reprint of Poor Charlie's Almanack. Munger was Warren Buffett’s business partner and one of the most well-respected thinkers around. He sadly passed just after this conversation and before the book was released. Apple | Spotify | Google [12/5/2023 - 100 minutes]
The non-investing segments are from 5:58-10:03, 32:08-33:18, 1:00:42-1:08:55 & 1:32:14-end of the episode.
“I have one standard set of advice for all difficulties. Suck it in and cope.” — Charlie Munger
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More from Jeff Bezos - Don’t Be Typical
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"There's never anything so bad that you cannot use that difficulty. If you can use it 0.25% to your advantage, you're ahead."
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