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Brian Ji

@brianjji

1 year

I think about this all the time.

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Brian Ji

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11 months

Sam Altman: "A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are. People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt,

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Peter Thiel: "Many of the more successful entrepreneurs [in Silicon Valley] seem to be suffering from a mild form of Asperger’s, where it’s like you’re missing the imitation, socialisation gene. It happens to be a plus for innovation and creating great companies, but I think we

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Brian Ji

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Peter Thiel on the single most important event in the history of Facebook.

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Brian Ji

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10 months

Paul Graham on why ambitious people need each other.

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Brian Ji

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10 months

Peter Thiel: Meaning is found in doing things that are important, that otherwise wouldn't get done. Aim to work on things which without you, wouldn't / couldn't get done by anyone else.

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Brian Ji

@brianjji

1 year

I think about this almost every day

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Brian Ji

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8 months

I often think about the fact that at 31 years old, Charlie Munger was divorced, broke, and burying his 9 year old son, who had died from cancer.

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Brian Ji

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9 months

Charlie Munger’s 3 rules for life.

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Brian Ji

@brianjji

10 months

I think about this passage from @paulg often.

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Brian Ji

@brianjji

11 months

Peter Thiel: “It’s always a big mistake going after a giant market on day 1... Almost all of the successful companies in Silicon Valley had some model of starting with small markets and expanding. What’s very counterintuitive about many of these companies is that they often

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Brian Ji

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9 months

Thiel: “Almost all of the successful companies in Silicon Valley had some model of starting with small markets and expanding.” Amazon started with books. PayPal started with eBay power-sellers. Facebook started with Harvard. Airbnb started with renting air mattresses. Tesla

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Brian Ji

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11 months

Peter Thiel: "Elite students climb confidently until they reach a level of competition sufficiently intense to beat their dreams out of them. …institutionalized education traffics in a kind of homogenized, generic knowledge. But life is not a portfolio: not for a startup

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Brian Ji

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10 months

Sam Altman: "I remember when Elon took me on a tour of the SpaceX factory many years ago. The thing that sticks in memory was the look of absolute certainty on his face when he talked about sending large rockets to Mars. I left thinking 'huh, so that’s the benchmark for what

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Brian Ji

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7 months

Andrej Karpathy on the most important thing he’s learned from Elon Musk:

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Brian Ji

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10 months

Paul Graham on how to do great work.

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Brian Ji

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10 months

Steve Jobs, 1996.

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Brian Ji

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10 months

Peter Thiel on what Elon Musk taught him about risk: "Look at the two companies Elon went on to build: SpaceX and Tesla. Silicon Valley wisdom would be that these were both incredibly crazy bets. But if two crazy companies work that everyone thought couldn’t possibly work,

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Brian Ji

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10 months

Thiel: "What I think people like Zuckerburg or Musk or Jeff Bezos at Amazon have in common is that they’re relentless. They don’t stop. Every day, they start over, do more, get better at it. People often ask whether Facebook was just a fluke, in the right place at the right time.

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Brian Ji

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1 year

Peter Thiel: In the 60s, technology meant computers, but also rockets, supersonic aviation, Green Revolution, agriculture, underwater ciites, and new medicines. Today, when we use the term technology, it just means information technology. We have a narrow cone of progress

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Brian Ji

@brianjji

5 months

A lot of alpha in Zuckerberg's answer here.

Brian Ji

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10 months

Peter Thiel on the single most important event in the history of Facebook.

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Brian Ji

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1 year

Nearly all young people severely underestimate their ability to exert their will over reality. "The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much

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Brian Ji

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9 months

Peter Thiel on the ideology of competition.

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Brian Ji

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1 year

Thiel's Closing Thoughts (CS183: Startup) There is something importantly singular about each new thing in the world. There is a mini singularity whenever you start a company or make a key life decision. In a very real sense, the life of every person is a singularity. The

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Brian Ji

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10 months

Elon on how he learns so much so quickly.

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Brian Ji

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9 months

Peter Thiel on having firm convictions.

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Brian Ji

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10 months

Paul Graham on why Airbnb succeeded.

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Brian Ji

@brianjji

5 months

Pretty ironic that Zuck and Meta are doing what OpenAI had originally been funded to do.

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Brian Ji

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10 months

Steve Jobs on the importance of recruiting A players.

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Brian Ji

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10 months

woah

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Brian Ji

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10 months

Jensen Huang: "I like to live in that state where we're about to perish. I do my best work in that condition."

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Brian Ji

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11 months

@mrdrinkmeyeezys . @sama : "I am willing to take as much time as needed between projects to find my next thing. But I always want it to be a project that, if successful, will make the rest of my career look like a footnote."

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Brian Ji

@brianjji

10 months

Charlie Munger on his life ethos.

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Brian Ji

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6 months

Some gems from Jensen Huang on his life philosophy: "Do something that nobody else in the world would do or can do." "I go forward in time, and I look backwards... I kind of read my history." "We did this one thing that was insanely hard to do, that we're incredibly good at

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Brian Ji

@brianjji

7 months

Do the work that only you can do.

BUILD OR DIE

@BUILD_OR_DIE

7 months

Jensen Huang: Do irreplaceable work. Work on things which without you, wouldn't / couldn't get done by anyone else.

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Brian Ji

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8 months

“by the time he was 69 years old, he had become one of the richest 400 people in the world, been married to his second wife for 35+ years, had eight wonderful children, countless grandchildren, and become one of the most respected business thinkers in history.”

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Brian Ji

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10 months

Charlie Munger's advice for finding your craft.

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Brian Ji

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1 year

Thiel: ...the most important lesson to learn from Jobs has nothing to do with aesthetics. The greatest thing Jobs designed was his business. Apple imagined and executed definite multi-year plans to create new products and distribute them effectively. Forget “minimum viable

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Brian Ji

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10 months

Thiel on competition as a form of validation.