What do great bosses do to earn our trust and respect?

1 tell us our work mattered
2 open career doors
3 defend us when we needed it
4 recognize and reward us
5 develop us as leaders
6 inspire us to stretch higher
7 lead by example
8 provide us a safe space to grow
9 forgive us

Do not take a good job, a caring boss and steady income for granted.

I trained for four years to run for only nine seconds. There are people who, because they do not see results in two months, give up and quit.

Sometimes failure is brought on by oneself.

—Usain St. Leo Bolt

greatness is found after your refusal to quit the hard stuff

Patrick Collison I thought SpaceX and Tesla both had >90% chance of failure, but worth trying anyway

'We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy' is a surprisingly profound quote. When I ask people who've pulled off remarkable things, it's interesting how many confirm that they wouldn't have started if they'd know how long and

28 founder rules that they never teach you:

1. Cash-flow is like an 'exit' every year
2. Networking events are 99% a waste of time
3. Your mental health is always at risk
4. You most likely won't make life changing money but will probably make 'car changing' money or 'house

The next big breakthrough in AI is AI Agents. This is when AI goes from being used as an assistant to chat with, to using AI to accomplish complete tasks that a human might otherwise have to perform. This moves AI from being a 'read-only' operation to fundamentally a 'read/write'

The benefit of a good education is the ability to think on your own.

“The kindest person in the room is often the smartest.”

Workers needed at S&P 500 companies to generate $1 million in revenue: 2

Given adoption of AI, will this number be < 1 by 2030?

Just go to a state school. The premium you're paying for elite private colleges vs. the better public schools is for social clout and not the quality of the education. And that's worth a lot less now that people have figured out that elite higher ed is cringe.

The best entrepreneurs have the strongest 'shake it off and try again' muscles.

They get the most repetitions on the way to figuring it out.

A legendary father and a remarkable judge

The concept of a self-made man or woman is a myth. I would have never made it in life without help.

—Arnold 


The current landscape of humanoid robots 🤖

Flow is all around us. Learn to get into a flow by letting go of what holds you down.

POPULATION PROJECTIONS 2075

1 India 🇮🇳 (1.7B)
2 China 🇨🇳 (1B)
3 Nigeria 🇳🇬
4 Pakistan 🇵🇰
5 United States 🇺🇸
6 Indonesia 🇮🇩

There's no such thing as a self-made man or woman. No one succeeds without support.

'I did it on my own' is a sign of insecurity and entitlement. Acknowledging help is a mark of confidence and humility.

Giving credit to others doesn't undermine you. It elevates them.