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It's often easier to avoid stupidity rather than trying to be brilliant. Read this article to learn when to avoid stupidity and when to pursue brilliance.

The Founder and CEO of Social Capital, prominent figure in the venture capital business and part owner of the Golden State Warriors, Chamath Palihapitiya sits down with Shane Parrish to chat about what it means to be an observer of the present, how to think in first principles, the psychology of successful investing, his thoughts […]

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I hang out around a lot of effective altruists. Many of them are motivated primarily by something like guilt (for having great resource and opportunity while others suffer) or shame (for not helping enough). Hell, many of my non-EA friends are primarily motivated by guilt or shame. I'm not going

All the weeks in a human life shown on one chart.

About two years ago, I went to an advertising conference in New York City. I was the youngest person in the room by far. The only one who wasn’t in a suit, wasn’t talking about vacation houses, about cars, wasn’t hoping to hook up with some other gross lonely person while away from home. I remember thinking very vividly at the time: this is the track I am on. Right now I am young but soon, soon I will be one of these assholes. I can’t express how much this shook me. I felt a kind of creeping dread that I would be absorbed into this crowd. That the things that were important to them would be...

Background This speech was originally delivered as the baccalaureate remarks to graduates from Princeton University on May 30, 2010. Speech Transcript As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fix windmills, vaccinate cattle, and do other chores. We also watched soap operas every afternoon, especially “Days of […]

Whether you’re a student, a teacher, or a parent, I think you’ll appreciate this story of how one teacher can completely and permanently change someone’s life in only a few lessons.

Five landmarks to unlock your potential

Chris Dixon's blog.

We learn valuable lessons when we experience failure and setbacks. Most of us wait for those failures to happen to us, however, instead of seeking them out. But deliberately making mistakes can give us the knowledge we need to more easily overcome obstacles in the future.

By Duncan Anderson. To see all blogs click here . Reading time: 10 mins Summary : We often make decisions/create outputs based on intuition and thoughtless thinking. IMO the best outputs are products of thinking about the thinking that went into creating that output. Then, levelling up that

By Duncan Anderson. To see all blogs click here . Reading time: 7 mins Summary IMO you don’t choose where you start life, but IMO you can have a strong say in where you end up.  You have biological set points and your environment matters a lot… but IMO these two don’t determi

We might not be able to be good right now, but we can be good enough.