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“It is not a terrible thing to love the world, knowing that the world is always passing and irrecoverable, to be known only in loss. To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.”
Wendell Berry
What a bargain indeed.
He was a great man and will be missed.
Thankful that he opened my eyes up to beauty that I had never seen before
Michael Newton retweeted
"Is it good?"
This question is what I hear in all of Wendell Berry's writing - no matter the character, story or subject he's covering.
Are your actions good?
Are your tools used for good?
Are you good to the people around you?
Are you a good ancestor to those after you?
Always in his poetic, heart-wrenching, and direct way he makes you consider, "Is it good?"
Charleston, SC - What are your favorite things to do, places to eat, hotels to stay?
Looking at a trip in the spring
Michael Newton retweeted
Wendell Berry on the goal of life and work.
Simple, not easy. From his 2004 essay, "Quality versus Form"
.@paulg said the best predictor of startup success at every stage is how fast a company ships new things
I've watched Etched build an entire inference rack in about 3 years (which is insane)
I've never seen a team execute this fast on something this hard
"You win by shipping. You don't win by having the best outreach or communications, you win by having the best product.
The biggest risk is not taking risk.
Every day there's over a billion dollars in revenue in this category, and a lot of it's inference.
So every day we don't ship, we're just leaving tons of opportunity on the table.
A very famous AI chip company took 10 months to go from getting their silicon back to running inference in a rack. We did it in 40 days."
Defense tech startup (4 FT employees → scaling to 15-20 soon) building options pool for employees + advisory board.
Current val ~$25-50M
What % pool size is standard at this stage for aggressive hiring? Advisor allocations?
Best practices for strike prices/409A timing around valuation jumps?
Real experiences or data from founders, board members, investors, or comp pros in deep tech/defense tech welcome. Examples appreciated.
Would add "purpose" and "relationship/community" but this is a great list.
HT: @JamesClear
26 years ago today my life, my desires, and many other things changed forever
Don't Waste Your Life
One of the greatest tragedies is to waste life on insignificant pursuits
24 yrs ago today the trajectory of my life & desires altered when I heard @JohnPiper
Each year I relisten in hopes of fanning the flame that was lit that day
desiringgod.org/messages/boa…
Which is why, as @tylercowen says, we need to focus on raising people's aspirations.
When building out AI implementation and governance plans for your company, what are your top 1-3 issues that you're thinking about?
The best episode of the year. Full of great wisdom. Highly recommend printing out the transcript and reading/highlighting it.
Brian on why pure people managers won't survive AI:
"I don't think people that only manage people will have any value in the future.
Everyone's going to have to be a hybrid people manager or manager IC.
In other words, even the managers need to code. You can't just be these managers where you're people's therapists and you're just doing meetings, just one-on-ones.
People who have lots of recurring one-on-ones are not going to survive.
That kind of leadership style is not gonna work. You need to have context.
I hear about heads of design, they don't actually manage the design. Johnny Ive manages the design. He designs and he leads people. A design leader who only manages the people that's crazy to me.
The way Frank Lloyd managed his design team is through the work. You don't manage the people, you manage the work.
I think a lot of people will survive this age of AI.
The two types of people that will not survive are pure people managers, and people that are rigid and don't want to change and evolve."
“The wise, in the next era, are already among us. The craftsman who still works with his hands when the screen would be faster. The student who sat with a painting until the painting changed her. The pilot who could still land the plane unaided. The investor who can hold a position when everyone else is selling. The skill that compounds is the skill built slowly, in friction. There will be fewer of these people. Each will matter more.”
Where Did All the Wise Men Go? by @curiousmindlabs is a must read.
“Anything that does the work for us eventually does the work instead of us, and then the question is what work we can still do when the system blinks.”
Applies to investing, AI, thinking, and many other facets of life.
Where Did All the Wise Men Go? by @curiousmindlabs is a must read.
“Anything that does the work for us eventually does the work instead of us, and then the question is what work we can still do when the system blinks.”
Applies to investing, AI, thinking, and many other facets of life.
