Few things will change your trajectory in life or business as much as learning to make effective decisions. Yet no one really teaches us what it means to make consistently high-quality decisions. The decision-making principles in this article are both practical and time-tested. They work in the real world.— Make Even Smarter Decisions
Good thread by the GP of the VC firm Point9.
He gave a speech in only 60 seconds.He said: Imagine life is a game of 5 balls that you manipulate in the air trying not to fall these balls. One of them is rubber, and the rest is glass. The five balls are: Work, family, health, friends, soul. It will not be long before you…
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• Study hard • What others think of you is none of your business. • It’s OK not to have all the answers. • Experiment, Fail, Learn and Repeat. • Knowledge comes from experience. • Imagination is important. • Do what interests you the most. • Stay curious.
Social scientists are researching what humans can do to improve their quality of life. Their findings echo what religious practices perfected centuries ago.
Venture capital investors are big fans of the word “strategy,” but they hardly give it much thought in their own business. Historically, venture capital firms competed by outdoing their peers in the same activities; they tried to answer emails faster, be nicer to founders, have a broader network, offer better terms, recruit smarter and better-known…
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After I completed my first novel, I had dreams of a beautiful black book, its ivory pages sewn into the binding, the title embossed in gold leaf, a single red ribbon denoting the place where a reader might pause in their reading, adrift in another world. Perhaps, if I was lucky enough, more than a…
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The other day I was kvetching to my colleague Evan about a top-tier VC firm that has some junior employees who enjoy being trolls on Twitter. “Yeah…” he said, “but you gotta hand it to them, they have seriously impressive returns!” And it’s true! They’ve made some damn good investments. Even though there’s scant public…
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