VijayRunning a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights.
— Byrne Hobart /25
Being a founder is hard. Being an early employee is hard. Being a VC is hard. Being a politician is hard. Being an engineer is hard. Being a writer is hard. Being a friend is hard. Being a partner is hard. Being a parent is hard.
It's all hard.
Life is hard, and then you die.
- @.shl /26
I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
- Flannery O'Connor /27
Your company may not be in the software business, but eventually, a software company will be in your business.
— @.naval /28
If your approach to mathematics is mechanical not mystical, you're not going to go anywhere.
—Nassim Nicholas Taleb /29
Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb /31
To improve the world, improve yourself.
— @.Route2FI /32
Injuries done to us by others tend to be acute; the self-inflicted ones tend to be chronic.
—Nassim Nicholas Taleb /34
If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb /35
Apple’s early adopters got utility.
AAPL’s early adopters got value.
— @.pierre_rochard /36
At the peak of Japan’s real estate bubble in the early 90s, the land under Tokyo’s Imperial Palace was worth more than all of California
— @.dannydiekroeger /37
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
— @.nntaleb /40
The secret to public speaking is to speak as if you were alone.
— @.naval /41
Never take investment advice from someone who has to work for a living.
— @.nntaleb /42
You will see it.. 👁️👁️
When you believe it.. 💗
- Dr. Wayne Dyer /43
We learn the most from fools.. yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb /44
A myosin protein dragging an endorphin along a filament to the inner part of the brain’s parietal cortex which creates happiness..
You’re looking at happiness.
"A myosin protein dragging an endorphin along a filament to the inner part of the brain’s parietal cortex" thing just like previous toot.. 👆
but with better graphics :)
To love is to risk not being loved in return, to live is to risk dying, to hope is to risk despair, to try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
— Leo F. Buscaglia /50
There's no relationship problem between US and China.. they're just trying to make you believe so.
Write a not-to-do list.
What you don’t do often determines what you can do.
— @.jakehaynes_ /53
Don't just manage time, but invest.
Take a task, ask yourself:
- Can u eliminate this?
- Can u automate the task?
- Can u delegate the task to somebody else?
— @.Sathyanand1985 /54
Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, to find out the business that needs you the most, to find the project and the art that needs you the most. There is something out there just for you.
— @.naval /55
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
— John Lennon /56
The amount of growth you will experience in your life depends on how much uncertainty you can handle.
— @.Kpaxs /57
Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb /58
Happy people try to build other people up. Unhappy people try to tear other people down.
— @.mkobach /59
Objectivity is a virtue, and one that is very difficult to practice.
— Pierre Hadot /60
You’re better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.
— Marcus Aurelius /61
If you’re scared of taking risks in your twenties when you have nothing to lose,
remember it will only get harder as you grow older with more constraints.
— @.orangebook_ /62
The creator mindset is the antithesis of the builder mindset.
— @.david_perell /63
We are prepared to use our full range of tools to support the economy.
— Jerome Powell /64
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
— Michael Hopf /65
Be willing to participate in a dialogue.
Be willing to be wrong.
Be willing to say something stupid.
Be willing to learn something new.
— @.Kpaxs /67
Tesla officially passes Visa and moves into the 7th spot for most valuable company in the U.S. (behind Berkshire Hathaway).
Market Cap
Tesla: $473 billion
Visa: $451 billion
Net Income
Tesla: $0.4 billion
Visa: $11.8 billion
Profit Margin
Tesla: 1.4%
Visa: 51.4%
— @.jessefelder /68