CEOs should be within 2 standard deviations of top talent

Why?

Because otherwise you can’t recognize the best

You can’t tell a top physics professor vs Einstein

Be top 1% to hire top 0.01%

Shaan Puri Joe Lonsdale This was a killer episode. Learned a lot. 🤝🏼

I know I’m getting old because my birthday wish was taking a 2.5 hour nap

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this got 350+ replies, so I took the best answers and turned it into an essay:

'Parents'

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this got 350+ replies, so I took the best answers and turned it into an essay:

'Parents'

shaanpuri.com/parents

who are the most interesting business men alive?

eg. Pavel from telegram. Billionaire, 'zuck of russia', only wears all black like neo in the matrix, jacked, lives in airbnbs and moves every few months.

The criteria:

1) interesting == unsual lifestyle, eccentric, weird, not…

“Opportunity is a function of density. Get to a place that’s crowded with success.

Big cities are like Wimbledon—even if you aren’t Rafael Nadal, your game will improve by being on the court with him. And you’ll either get in better shape or learn you shouldn’t be at…

what's the simplest thing you've done for your parents that made their life better?

'look for projects that can be successes long term, even if they fail short term' - Tim Ferriss

this is a brilliant way to look at a project before even starting.

and that is the same mentality I'm bringing to my 100k followers in 90 days challenge.

if I don't get 100k…

New episode with Tim Ferriss is out! This one has some all timers in it:

- the story of how he met Naval by accidentally hitting on his girlfriend

- “big dreams, big things, are easy to hide behind.” But you can’t hide from the next simple action

A bunch more. Go watch!

What’s the best way to throw up a simple, clean minimalist blog nowadays?

I’m itching to get my Paul graham on with some essays

I used to like Svbtle Platform back in the day. And I think beehiiv 🐝 just launched something like this…

Is there something else I should checkout?

The second part of my chat with Sam and Shaan is live, we get into way more stuff beyond investing and business. This was my favorite part!

If you haven’t listened to the Jeremy Giffon ep on My First Million pod yet, most definitely do- great ep Shaan Puri & Sam Parr 💥 💥 💥

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