@MichaelAArouet I don’t think the world acknowledges how hard is the regime working to intervene in central and western countries’ elections. Poland being just one of many examples. It’s an act of war, imho, and yet no consequences for it
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Monika Starzyk
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Monika Starzyk
@stmonika
Neuropsychologist | Exploring science behind extraordinary minds and passionate hearts. Prev, Dev Experts Program @Google, partner at Base (acq./Zendesk)
Katılım Ekim 2011
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@davidsenra @pmarca He’s actually talking about having no guilt and no self-second guessing. A very tiny area of introspection. In a podcasts that’s literally a proof of the power of introspection.
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Great men of history had little to no introspection.
The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself.
@pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about:
David: You don't have any levels of introspection?
Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible.
David: Why?
Marc: Move forward. Go!
I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home.
David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection.
Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self.
He just woke up and was like:
I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again.
Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective.
All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s.
Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff.
The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology.
And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual.
We need to criticize the individual.
The individual needs to self criticize.
The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past.
It never resonated with me.
David Senra@davidsenra
My conversation with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), co-founder of @a16z and Netscape. 0:00 Caffeine Heart Scare 0:56 Zero Introspection Mindset 3:24 Psychedelics and Founders 4:54 Motivation Beyond Happiness 7:18 Tech as Progress Engine 10:27 Founders Versus Managers 20:01 HP Intel Founder Legacy 21:32 Why Start the Firm 24:14 Venture Barbell Theory 28:57 JP Morgan Boutique Banking 30:02 Religion Split Wall Street 30:41 Barbell of Banking 31:42 Allen & Company Model 33:16 Planning the VC Firm 33:45 CAA Playbook Lessons 36:49 First Principles vs. Status Quo 39:03 Scaling Venture Capital 40:37 Private Equity and Mad Men 42:52 Valley Shifts to Full Stack 45:59 Meeting Jim Clark 48:53 Founder vs. Manager at SGI 54:20 Recruiting Dinner Story 56:58 Starting the Next Company 57:57 Nintendo Online Gamble 58:33 Building Mosaic Browser 59:45 NSFnet Commercial Ban 1:01:28 Eternal September Shift 1:03:11 Spam and Web Controversy 1:04:49 Mosaic Tech Support Flood 1:07:49 Netscape Business Model 1:09:05 Early Internet Skepticism 1:11:15 Moral Panic Pattern 1:13:08 Bicycle Face Story 1:14:48 Music Panic Examples 1:18:12 Lessons from Jim Clark 1:19:36 Clark Versus Barksdale 1:21:22 Tesla Versus Edison 1:23:00 Edison Digression Setup 1:23:13 AI Forecasting Myths 1:23:43 Edison Phonograph Lesson 1:25:11 Netscape Two Jims 1:29:11 Bottling Innovation 1:31:44 Elon Management Code 1:32:24 IBM Big Gray Cloud 1:37:12 Engineer First Truth 1:38:28 Bottlenecks and Speed 1:42:46 Milli Elon Metric 1:47:20 Starlink Side Project 1:49:10 Closing Includes paid partnerships.
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@lulumeservey @dpifke 100% and backed up by neuropsychology. The great ad hoc speaking correlates with good copywriting. But deep thinkers need time to translate the depth and breadth of their thinking into messaging. (These two traits don’t necessarily exclude each other of course).
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@dpifke I agree and think 1 shouldn’t stand alone for that reason. Many of the best writers are more fluent with a pen and unbounded processing time than they are speaking on the spot
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Writing ability is still one of the most important skills to have
To test for that, I used to ask people to write something for me. But now, to make sure they’re good writers and not only good prompters, I find it helpful to also:
1) ask them to explain a concept extemporaneously (strong rhetoric and lucidity typically translate to clear writing, though not always the other way around)
2) look at writing samples from before 2023
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@benln @KamilStanuch @cursor_ai @nickwm We need an actual Cursor Cafe here 🤓 A glimpse into the future of work.
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Update Cafe @cursor_ai Krakow: we’ve hit 200% capacity in 48h! 🤯
I honestly didn’t expect this level of interest so quickly.
Ok, we are working hard to accommodate as many of you as possible for Feb 18th but we want to make sure everyone who joins for the co-working sessions has a comfortable seat and a great environment to build.
The good news? Given this incredible demand, we are already planning the next Cafe Cursor and future meetups.
Missed the initial window?
📍 Join the waitlist on Luma: luma.com/63yubrr2
📍 Keep an eye out - we’re already scouting for the next one!
See you soon! 🇵🇱☕️
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@elonmusk The entire framework assumes leftward movement = capture/failure; rightward =staying "sane" (the title). Ideology masquerading as analysis. One could equally argue that women gained political consciousness while men failed to evolve.And that's just one of many logic issues here
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@Anzer__786 @FoundersPodcast Totally and many of high achievers say they have it even after their legendary achievements. The nuance: whether it blocks us from action and iteration (paralysis, postponing, pracrastination) or fuels the drive. Unstoppable > fearless.
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@FoundersPodcast So that means fear of failure is a good thing to have
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David Senra@davidsenra
Here's my conversation with @MichaelDell, founder, chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies (@DellTech). (0:00) The Early Obsession: Dell's Beginnings (0:18) Middle School Memories and Early Financial Fascinations (1:11) The Spark of Stock Market Interest (2:14) Unreleased Products and Unwavering Enthusiasm (2:35) Family Conversations and Motivations (3:11) The Puzzle of Technology (4:50) Taking Things Apart: A Lifelong Curiosity (5:52) The Economics of IBM and Early Business Insights (9:19) Cost Control and Competitive Advantage (16:36) The Importance of Storytelling in Business (20:58) Learning from the Greats: Influences and Inspirations (25:00) The Challenge of Self-Sabotage in Entrepreneurship (29:48) Embracing Change and Innovation (43:09) The Power of Data and AI in Business (46:55) Cultural Differences and Resistance to Change (47:22) Investing in Technology: Lessons from Andrew Carnegie (49:05) The Concept of 'Dad Terminal' (50:54) Supply Chain Mastery (56:18) The Importance of Energy Management (57:59) Early Financial Challenges and Solutions (1:02:05) The Negative Cash Conversion Cycle (1:18:17) The Mail Order Stigma and Overcoming It (1:19:39) The Rise of E-commerce (1:28:48) Fear of Failure and Final Thoughts Includes paid partnerships.
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@FoundersPodcast It’s stronger, but we need both. The negative motivation is necessary to take off, but the love of the end result is necessary to land and keep it. (“What took you here, won’t take you there”)
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@hnshah @SiddharthS768 I’d love to read about your top most precious findings, insights and “what works” about life and business, so far.
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Most people have no idea what it actually takes to be a founder. They talk about vision, grit, or passion. Those words are props.
What you really sign up for is a life where every decision feels like it costs something real. You will spend years being misunderstood. By your team, your family, even the people you hire to help you. You will fail in public and still need to keep the energy up in private. Every founder lives with the weight of knowing that you can do everything right and still get crushed by luck, timing, or somebody else’s mistake.
Founders aren’t braver than anyone else. They just get used to uncertainty, then stop waiting for clarity. Most of your wins won’t feel like wins at all. The first revenue will be too small. The first team will outgrow you or leave. The first product that feels right will barely matter to the market. You will doubt yourself in private, sometimes every week. The founders who last figure out how to keep moving while the ground shifts underneath them.
Most outsiders want the founder badge but none of the scars. They want the upside, not the drag. The hardest part is sticking around after every plan gets blown up and you have to rebuild with less optimism and more scar tissue. What makes it work isn’t relentless hustle or some mythical trait. It’s learning to make peace with constant discomfort, and then making decisions anyway.
If you need constant reassurance, you’ll give up before the real work begins. If you want everyone to like you, you’ll never make the calls that matter. If you can’t handle months where nothing feels certain, this life will eat you alive.
But if you can hold your own in chaos, get better at being wrong, and still want to show up and try again, you just might have a shot at building something that matters.
That’s what it actually takes. And nobody cares until you make it work.
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@HarounHickman @garrytan Agree. The magic of personalization ends at isolation. But that’s when we talk about creating value for people. It’s a different story for creating „users” and addiction though: so I bet both views are right
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@garrytan Sorry Garry, I think this misses the mark on just how much humans value shared experiences and the culture, community and discourse that proliferates from that.
I couldn’t think of anything worse than films or songs being personalised for me. That isn’t the point of art.
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An extremely obvious version of AI + YouTube will look like personalized documentaries with video and AI agents linking the best most interesting clips
Imagine a personalized docuvibe about Coltrane and Davis with specific video essay built just for the user on the spot
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@TrajektoriaAI Kojarzę jego nazwisko z jeszcze innej strony: od lat, na stronie sfinks.org.pl - organizatora konkursów łamigłówkowych i sudoku, Przemysław zawsze gdzieś w top 3 ląduje (tak, czasem go ktoś tam ogrywa). Polecam zadania z konkursu łamigłówkowego, świetny trening myślenia
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1/ Ciekawy z niego człowiek. Przemysław Dębiak, znany jako Psyho – zwycięzca prestiżowego konkursu programistycznego, na którym okazał się lepszy od AI od OpenAI – nie ukończył studiów, twierdzi, że jest kiepski z matematyki, nigdy nie pracował na etacie, a programowaniem zajął się, bo chciał tworzyć gry. Oto kilka jego wypowiedzi z AMA na Wykopie z 2013 roku:
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@ZacharyDash @sama Maybe it’s not a „personal” device, so much? Smart city direction? Also to unlock Sam’s eye-scanner adoption
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@sama 1. Amazing storying telling
2. Shows trend towards founder-centered brands
3. Will either go down as best promo ever or most infamous depending on direction of OpenAI
4. Didn't quite understand why such a focus on San Francisco
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@ObserverEffect @sriramk Is this one still available somewhere? 🙏
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The one and only Marc Andreessen on productivity, how he spends his time, learning, reading, his "build" essay and much more.
theobservereffect.org/marc.html
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@skalskiw Almost! I was thinking about different types of startups' influence on humans. E.g. influential due to engaging us in consumption (tik tok, netflix), vs. due to offline life solutions (airbnb, uber, paypal), etc. Curious how does that connect to models they used / misused
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@stmonika You mean how different frameworks influenced entertainment consumption (viral loops in tik tok)/digital work tools (habits formation) etc?
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I'm mapping the evolution and connections between the most influential startup and growth frameworks - all the way from the scientific method and Skinner's behaviorism to PLG and growth loops.
Are there any key ideas you think I must include?
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@david_perell @wminshew Maybe the secret sauce is a satisficing brand with the elements of maximizing, but exactly in the right points of client’s interaction? ( Thinking of Apple and Beyonce brands )
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@wminshew Funny... they have characteristics of both.
Probably lean towards Satisficing
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1/ "Marketing is the science of knowing what economists are wrong about."
Here’s a collection of marketing insights, mostly inspired by @rorysutherland, a marketing executive at Ogilvy & Mather.
Thread!
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Same with human excellence and personal branding. Strengths, values, skills and passions are the ingredients, but the magic happens when we mix them into something that serves others. Not showcasing lemons, serving lemonades.
Wojtek Skalski@skalskiw
What do Lego, growth, and the universe have in common? The magic isn’t in the pieces - it’s in how they’re put together.
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@hnshah More dopamine release from thinking than Netflix - not the worst setup!
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Most people unwind with Netflix. I unwind by solving the problem that’s been haunting me all week. I’m not sure if that’s resilience or delusion.
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People always ask me what makes founders different.
Trauma. The answer is trauma.
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#3 #Individualization - good at cooperating with people, attentive during interviews and then this story on getting funding from Peter Thiel
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A chemistry Noble Prize for a programmer who said: "there are only 2 subjects worth studying: physics and neuroscience".
He's also the CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind.
Talk about innovation happening at the intersection of disciplines. My guess of his top 3 talents 👇🏻
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