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I've got an idea for a podcast In my job I get to know a lot of phenomenal operators that have zero public persona but they make startups work Once a month I interview one, not high-level, but super nitty gritty tactics Would you listen? RT/Like if so, so I can gauge interest

One of the biggest sources of institutional decay is the lack of risk / benefit analysis. It's so easy to overcorrect after a catastrophe, and incur an invisible cost forever after. Do that for a couple of years, and before you know it you've outlawed innovation and productivity

12 years of testing smartphones and only now I find the right way to move app icons from one screen to the other. You hold the icon with one finger and swipe through screens with another. I used to do it by bringing the icon to the edge of the screen which is slower/annoying.

If you learn from everything, then it starts to feel like everything happens for a reason.

1of x: BEST analysis of what really is happening on the #Boeing737Max issue from my brother in law @davekammeyer, who’s a pilot, software engineer & deep thinker. Bottom line don’t blame software that’s the band aid for many other engineering and economic forces in effect.

As we know more we see less. Consciousness declines from baby to adult .....Alison Gopnik

To celebrate six years of Cruise, we're sharing six little-known facts about our journey from a three-person startup to a 1,600-person company tackling the greatest engineering challenge of our generation!

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True religion is rejecting all teachings and thinking for yourself.

A silicon valley startup raising $5m can hire maybe 10 engineers. A Nigerian (or Indian/Chinese) startup raising that amount can hire 100 engineers. This will soon start to show in product iteration speed as skill levels across the world balance out.

"A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control." - @naval

Creativity starts with an empty calendar and ends with a full one.

The more you judge, the more you separate yourself.... The world just reflects your own feelings back to you. -@naval

"The selfish reason to be ethical is that it attracts the other ethical people in the network." - @naval

The mistakes that inexperienced founders make have a lot in common with those that inexperienced writers make. They go about things in an overcomplicated way, because the obvious, simple approach doesn't seem "serious" enough.

"Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Whatever the CEO isn't good at and isn't owned by a specific function