Basically the best things in your life will come from the people that you hang out with, and I mean the people that you love,… Read More »Eric Schmidt on who you work with and the best things in your life
Gregory Washington: When I interview people, when I look for people who are going to be part of a team that I’m managing or leading,… Read More »Tyler Cowen on Talent (3): The Eye of the Tiger (with Gregory Washington)
Tyler Cowen: Don’t obsess over the person being too much like you, that’s a most common mistake almost all interviewers make. People appreciate those like… Read More »Tyler Cowen on Talent (2): Prejudice, diversity and the most common mistake we make
Gregory Washington: How can society get better at finding talent and why is it so difficult? Tyler Cowen: I think it’s so difficult because it’s… Read More »Tyler Cowen on Talent (1): Talent Spotting as Art, and Overrated / Underrated
Ben Horrowitz and Marc Andreessen are usually fun and full of useful ideas, and this three-hour (!) recording of two conversations they had on Clubhouse,… Read More »Resource: One on One with A and Z
This morning I came across a great article by Joshua Sokol – Why Artificial Intelligence Like AlphaZero Has Trouble With the Real World – that… Read More »Learning environments: kind, wicked and… fiendish?
I think I do. Unless it’s an especially good day with the wind at my back, running a good time takes a degree of concentration… Read More »Do you run faster when not listening to a podcast?
“This might not work,” is at the heart of all of our most important work, but often we let the possibility of failure put us… Read More »Seth Godin: “This might not work.”
Here’s the authentic Seth Godin with one of his best riffs: Authenticity is a crock. Authenticity is overrated. Authenticity is a trap. Because the last… Read More »Seth Godin on authenticity
[Claude] Shannon said “Look, here’s what information is. Let’s say I want to navigate from one part of the city to another, from A to… Read More »David Krakauer on Claude Shannon’s definition of information