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Seth Godin made more money on a book he gave away for free than a NYTimes bestselling book published conventionally 24 May 2013 | 11:55 am
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Steve Jobs negotiation tactics: Masterful framing of facts and concise turns of phrases 23 May 2013 | 08:20 am
"Analysts estimate that Amazon has sold more than one million Kindles in 18+ months (Amazon has never said). We will sell more of our new devices than all of the Kindles ever sold during the first few...
The Three Kinds of Laziness 18 May 2013 | 10:19 pm
We speak of three kinds of laziness. The first is simply to spend all your time eating and sleeping. The second is to tell yourself, "Someone like me will never manage to perfect themselves." In the B...
Peter Thiel: VC should be about well-formed ideas about the future, not hemming and hawing about access to good deals 6 May 2013 | 08:50 pm
Whereas before investors actually had ideas, today they focus on managing risk. Very rarely in the hedge fund world do people ask questions about what’s going to happen in the future. It’s less, “What...
"I wish we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it." -Bill Gates 6 May 2013 | 08:33 am
ILLUSTRATION: RICCARDO VECCHIO Wired: Peter Thiel, expressing his dissatisfaction with technology’s progress, recently noted, “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” Do you agree with...
Don't be a mercenary, be an owner, and capture the value you create 6 May 2013 | 02:38 am
In an essay last year in Forbes, Venkatesh Rao talked briefly about Alexander Holley, one of the steel-making pioneers who worked closely with steel magnate Andrew Carnegie -- not as a peer, but in to...
It's not about passion, it's about desire to [cook / code / create / build] 16 Apr 2013 | 10:58 am
It’s not about passion. Passion is something that we tend to overemphasize, that we certainly place too much importance on. Passion ebbs and flows. To me, it’s about desire. If you have constant, unwa...
Why I love basketball: The most skill-based sport there is, only 12% of success attributable to luck vs 30-50% for others 15 Apr 2013 | 02:08 am
Seen on great post by Farnam Street: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing I guess that gives new meaning to what it means to be a BALLER
How to win while being generous: Givers can avoid burnout by shunning free-riders and give-nothing-back takers 14 Apr 2013 | 10:00 pm
Organizational psychologist Adam Grant has a new book Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success. NY Times Magazine made it the cover story for March. I think this is a pretty useful model for...
Hackers can be business guys, and other lessons from an interview with Paul Graham during the first YC batch in 2005 14 Apr 2013 | 01:01 pm
Spent most of this evening reading YC applications. We ask applicants to record themselves for about a minute with their cofounders just so we can get a sense for who they are in person. We fire up th...
