Ferdnand Muganda

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beauty is in the details

For quality of life, it is better to err on the side of being an optimist and wrong, rather than a pessimist and right

“Ideas are trivial, execution is everything.” – Elon Musk

Indecision kills more dreams than bad decisions.

"When everybody goes insane, staying sane is your competitive advantage." — Charlie Munger

“You need to be stubborn on your vision, but very flexible on the details.” — Jeff Bezos

"The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life." @naval

"Everyone makes mistakes..." — Warren Buffett "You can learn to make fewer mistakes than other people—and how to fix your mistakes faster when you do make them." — Charlie Munger

The secret to success in almost all fields is large, uninterrupted blocks of focused time.

23 lessons from David Ogilvy: 1. Search all the parks in all your cities; you'll find no statues of committees. 2. The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. 3. You are advertising to a moving parade, not a standing army. 4. Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone. 5. Remember you are a human being writing to another human being. Neither of you is an institution 6. Tell your prospective client your weakness before they notice them. This will make you more credible when you boast about your strong points. 7. Avoiding excess in all things is a recipe for dullness and mediocrity. 8. A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself. 9. There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50% more readers 10. Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science, and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well-informed, or your idea will be irrelevant 11. People who think well, write well 12. The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is 'test'. 13. On average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. 14. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar. 15. Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating 16. Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things. 17. Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals. 18. Raise your sights. Blaze new trails. Compete with the immortals. 19. I am a lousy copywriter, but I am a good editor. So I go to work editing my own draft. 20. If you're trying to persuade people to buy something, use the language in which they think. 21. Insist that due dates are kept even if it means working all night. Hard work never killed a man. People die of boredom 22. If you are lucky enough to write a good advertisement, repeat it until it stops selling. 23. At the start of your career in advertising, what you learn is more important than what you earn.

Strategy is your only dependable sword and shield.

Zach is spot on...

@ContagiousFunn 1917 - when behind the scenes footage is nearly as spectacular as what we see on screen.

"We prefer to see “winners” as “naturally talented” rather than “hard working.” Because if it were reversed, what would that imply about us?" @naval

Mark Zuckerberg literally drops a 90-minute masterclass on AI, China, and AGI

Let me save you 1 hour of your time. Here are the notes.: Focus on Core Problems -Don’t try to solve everything -Choose the problem where your skills make the biggest impact -Become obsessed with solving it better than anyone else Optimize for User Value -Stop chasing benchmarks that don’t matter -Measure success by how much value you deliver to users Embrace Open Source Wisely -Share your work, but protect your core technology -Balance transparency with control Invest in Efficiency -Build for low latency and high scalability from day one -Use models that balance performance and cost Create a Flywheel Effect -Don’t wait for the perfect solution -Launch, learn, and improve fast -Use user feedback to guide your evolution Understand Your North Star -Know your core mission -Be relentless about focusing on what really matters Stay Adaptive -The field will change -stay curious -Don’t be afraid to experiment and pivot Surround Yourself with Excellence -Hire people smarter than you -Build a team that’s as obsessed as you are -Create a culture of curiosity and execution Never Underestimate the Power of Feedback -Constantly engage with users -Build a feedback loop that never stops Think Long-Term, But Act Fast -Build for the next decade, not the next quarter -Always be ready to scale your solutions Follow me for more summaries and insights.

this is like when Lebron joined the lakers but for nerds

#10. At 20, I had no clue who I was. I was chasing approval. Performing. But something inside whispered: this isn’t it. That whisper? It never stopped.