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“Just stop drinking”

“got a DM from an artist asking for advice because art isn’t selling as much these days thought my response might be useful to other artists as well”

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“If there's one thing I've learned in business over the last 25 years, it's this: Every difficult decision would have been easier had I made it earlier.”

“The origin of good ideas according to @tferriss: 1. What are the nerds doing at night and on weekends 2. What are rich people doing now, that everyone might be doing 10 years from now? 3. Where are people cobbling together awkward solutions. pure gold.”

“@EricJorgenson Unpublished essay I have: Treadmill Friends vs Sofa Friends 1. Treadmill Friends - After hanging out with them, you have so much energy that you want to run on a treadmill to calm down. 2. Sofa friends - After hanging out with them, you are drained that you want to lie on a…”

““I'm often asked: How can you trust people so much? Because that's the only way it works.” ⁦@amandapalmer⁩”

“A violinist played for 45 minutes in a New York subway. A handful of people stopped, a couple clapped, and the violinist managed to raise about $30 in tips. No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. In that subway, Joshua…”

“When young founders build something that they don't want themselves but that they believe some group of other people want, 90% of the time they're building something no one wants.”

“Here's a big list of things that don't seem to work, based on the last 20 years of running Tiny: • Giving an advisor or advisory board free equity to advise a CEO without putting any real skin in the game and investing their own money (they usually go "thanks for the free…”

“@telmudic @ESYudkowsky A nontrivial part of the value of YC is that we give people a high-status brand under which to do low-status things. Being able to tell your parents "I got funded by YC" gives you cover to do things that don't scale.”

“Naval for kids. 2 years ago my nephew and I had conversation on important ideas from @naval Turned his ideas suitable for a 11 year old conversation. Back then he forbade me sharing the project on any social media. He changed his mind last week, sharing this now.”

“Gautam Baid is a great investor and friend. His book The Joys of Compounding is a must read. Here's what I learned:”

"I never trust a man who doesn't have enemies." - @nntaleb— Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom (@TalebWisdom) April 14, 2023

“Dream big, iterate small.”

Twitter revealed its algorithm to the world. But what does it mean for you?I spent the evening analyzing it.Here’s what you need to know:— Aakash Gupta 🚀 Product Growth Guy (@aakashg0) April 1, 2023

“True. You gotta be prepared to eat dirt and for nobody to understand why you’re working for free.”

Interesting claim from the book Mixed Signals: creative people don’t necessarily have better ideas on average; they have more ideas, some of which are highly creative pic.twitter.com/wXCGbimbI2— richard shotton (@rshotton) March 27, 2023

“I had dinner with Charlie Munger. I spent over 3 hours with him. I got to see his library. I could ask him any question I wanted. At 99 he is still *ferociously* intelligent. The most important lesson I learned from him that night was: GO FOR GREAT. In typical Charlie…”

"Never argue with people in private (you will not convince them); argue in public to convince others." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb— Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom (@TalebWisdom) March 22, 2023

E. B. White declining an invitation: pic.twitter.com/wMteRKRIMS— Letters of Note (@LettersOfNote) November 4, 2013

"Never read a book written by a journalist. Never read a book if you understand the table of contents" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb— Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom (@TalebWisdom) March 16, 2023

This long-lost blogpost from 2001 is the genesis of Podcasting pic.twitter.com/bILvdrIAOp— Adam Curry - Texas (@adamcurry) November 26, 2022

Winston Churchill on the creative process: pic.twitter.com/mWq4BFFc10— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) February 20, 2023

“In 1974, author Ray Bradbury was asked, “What is space travel going to do for man?” In response, he gave the most mystical, mind-blowing, and strangely moving answer I could have imagined.”

“1) Value: is what they get 2) Price: is what they pay 3) Cost: is what it costs you Great business: 1 > 2 > 3 Most businesses: 2 > 1 > 3 Bad software startups: 3 > 2 > 1 😂”

“People show ownership when you show ownership towards people. They’ll care for your long term if you care for their long term.”

When one person edits your writing, it usually gets better. When a bunch of people edit your writing, it usually gets worse.— David Perell (@david_perell) January 20, 2023

“An exchange for the ages” Rick Rubin 关于鉴赏力和决断力