Probably the realest thing I have heard Chamath say
"Possessions are BS. They are worthless. They are a sign of insecurity, a rampant ego, and an unsettled mind. And that is okay if you are going to be a mid."
a YC founder i'm working with was worried because one customer had already built a simple version of his product in-house.
i told him that's not a bad sign, and it's actually the best proof point he has.
if a company is spending expensive engineering time on the problem you're solving, that validates a bunch of things at once:
- the pain is very real
- other vendors are not good enough
- many companies likely have the same pain too
My favorite @elonmusk quote that I often send friends:
Do not fear losing. “You will lose,” Musk says. “It will hurt the first fifty times. When you get used to losing, you will play each game with less emotion.” You will be more fearless, take more risks.
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of
space exploration technologies might be the hardest company name of all time. insane cultural victory for tech that the company with the most definite optimist vision of the future is the biggest ipo in history
I read this every week for 3 years and had it pasted on my dorm room's wall.
Best writing is not literary or PhD-esque.
It is persuasive. It is simple. It's humorous. It has short sentences.
That is more valuable, than any other type of writing.
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