The 26th Edition - On APPL, billionaire habits & wisdom from a 70-year old

Did you know that in in 1997, AAPL was 90 days away from bankruptcy?

Hello,

Did you know that in in 1997, AAPL was 90 days away from bankruptcy?

Regardless of Apple’s dark side, somehow this makes me optimistic.

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103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known

Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, shares timeless advice on his 70'th birthday.

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Some of my favorites:

• Speak confidently as if you are right, but listen carefully as if you are wrong.

• Don’t bother fighting the old; just build the new.

• For a great payoff be especially curious about the things you are not interested in.

Watch

How Future Billionaires Get Sh*t Done

An interesting piece of content from YC that is usually pretty sterile - they’re clearly trying to go for the Gen Z pop with these Mr.Beast-like Youtube thumbnails.

Some great highlights:

16:00 - Hedging Bets

10:51 - What great founders do not do

07:38 - Visible KPIs

06:36 - Meetings

Remember

•  “A lack of bureaucracy has made Berkshire a lot of money.” - Charlie Munger (2022, source)

• “ONE OF THE most important ways to create an environment in which Radical Candor trumps political BS is to never let one person on your team talk to you about another behind their back.” - Kim Malone Scott

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