Most people are not in the position to be as candid as they want to be.
Today, I re-listened a VERY HONEST interview with Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) on @TKPPodcast.
For the 3rd time.
He is is an extremely confident humble person and the talk is pure gold. Highly recommend it. Hats off to @ShaneAParrish!
I combined key learnings below 👇
Most people are not in the position to be as candid as they want to be.
It demystifies your 'greatness’, makes it more normal, and lets others relate.
It leads to an inevitable moment when people start questioning their happiness.
They are willing to be happy in the way they defined it to themselves.
Older generations were just checking the boxes.
Many people realize that it is not the pattern to maximize their fulfillment.
Happy engineer is better than an unhappy engineer.
Happy artist is better than an unhappy artist.
And so on.
Being honest leads to happiness. When you lie to someone you first lie to yourself.
The more comfort you have with yourself, your self-worth, and your limitations the more honest you can be.
Running a happiness race with money is more distractive than if you do it without money.
Path to happiness is an internal process.
Freedom one is easily copied.
We should provide them a reasonable roadmap that they can execute.
The opportunity is to curate and cultivate a community around that to help people. For everyone.
These are very simple, hierarchical ideas.
Figure out the right mix of early vs. late stage, public vs. private then you can come up with the answer.
If you take a look at Amazon's PnL and zoom in at every single expense line, you will see that he created a product around it and made it a revenue line.
That is why capital allocation is an amazing skill.
+ you want long-term growth
+ the higher the growth the better
+ in areas that matter for people
In 10 years from now, it is going to be a playbook that works.
@elonmusk enters the room 🚪
You are always going to fight with yourself.
Numerous psychological traps:
- panicking
- overreacting
- underreacting
- refusing to observe the present
- living too much in the past
- wanting to much to believe in the future
That is a good strategy. It solves your blind spots.
Protect you from yourself.
It is a money-making strategy.
Spending time understanding yourself is enormously helpful.
If you will be fundamentally inoffensive in your opinions upfront, you find people who have extreme opinions will talk to you in a very unguarded way.
Train yourself to be seduced by these people, so you can learn from them.
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.@bellingcat's attempt in their new book, published by
@BloomsburyBooks, to coverup the @OPCW #Douma controversy, promote US and UK gov. war narratives, and whitewash fraudulent conduct within the OPCW, is an exercise in deception through omission @marydejevsky @freddiesayers
1) 2000 words are devoted to the OPCW controversy regarding the alleged chemical weapon attack in #Douma, Syria in 2018 but critical material is omitted from the book. Reading it, one would never know the following:
2) That the controversy started when the original interim report, drafted and agreed by Douma inspection team members, was secretly modified by an unknown OPCW person who had manipulated the findings to suggest an attack had occurred. https://t.co/QtAAyH9WyX… @RobertF40396660
3) This act of attempted deception was only derailed because an inspector discovered the secret changes. The manipulations were reported by @ClarkeMicah
and can be readily observed in documents now available https://t.co/2BUNlD8ZUv….
4) .@bellingcat's book also makes no mention of the @couragefoundation panel, attended by the @opcw's first Director General, Jose Bustani, at which an OPCW official detailed key procedural irregularities and scientific flaws with the Final Douma Report:
@BloomsburyBooks, to coverup the @OPCW #Douma controversy, promote US and UK gov. war narratives, and whitewash fraudulent conduct within the OPCW, is an exercise in deception through omission @marydejevsky @freddiesayers
In response to @marydejevsky seemingly bad faith questions about Bellingcat on @unherd I've written a response providing details of where Bellingcat came from, and why it is like it is https://t.co/5rCsSwpcAm
— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) February 15, 2021
1) 2000 words are devoted to the OPCW controversy regarding the alleged chemical weapon attack in #Douma, Syria in 2018 but critical material is omitted from the book. Reading it, one would never know the following:
2) That the controversy started when the original interim report, drafted and agreed by Douma inspection team members, was secretly modified by an unknown OPCW person who had manipulated the findings to suggest an attack had occurred. https://t.co/QtAAyH9WyX… @RobertF40396660
3) This act of attempted deception was only derailed because an inspector discovered the secret changes. The manipulations were reported by @ClarkeMicah
and can be readily observed in documents now available https://t.co/2BUNlD8ZUv….
4) .@bellingcat's book also makes no mention of the @couragefoundation panel, attended by the @opcw's first Director General, Jose Bustani, at which an OPCW official detailed key procedural irregularities and scientific flaws with the Final Douma Report:
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He has been wrong (or lying) so often that it will be nearly impossible for me to track every grift, lie, deceit, manipulation he has pulled. I will use...
... other sources who have been trying to shine on light on this grifter (as I have tried to do, time and again:
Example #1: "Still not seeing Sweden signal versus Denmark really"... There it was (Images attached).
19 to 80 is an over 300% difference.
Tweet: https://t.co/36FnYnsRT9
Example #2 - "Yes, I'm comparing the Noridcs / No, you cannot compare the Nordics."
I wonder why...
Tweets: https://t.co/XLfoX4rpck / https://t.co/vjE1ctLU5x
Example #3 - "I'm only looking at what makes the data fit in my favour" a.k.a moving the goalposts.
Tweets: https://t.co/vcDpTu3qyj / https://t.co/CA3N6hC2Lq
He has been wrong (or lying) so often that it will be nearly impossible for me to track every grift, lie, deceit, manipulation he has pulled. I will use...
... other sources who have been trying to shine on light on this grifter (as I have tried to do, time and again:
Ivor Cummins BE (Chem) is a former R&D Manager at HP (sourcre: https://t.co/Wbf5scf7gn), turned Content Creator/Podcast Host/YouTube personality. (Call it what you will.)
— Steve (@braidedmanga) November 17, 2020
Example #1: "Still not seeing Sweden signal versus Denmark really"... There it was (Images attached).
19 to 80 is an over 300% difference.
Tweet: https://t.co/36FnYnsRT9
Example #2 - "Yes, I'm comparing the Noridcs / No, you cannot compare the Nordics."
I wonder why...
Tweets: https://t.co/XLfoX4rpck / https://t.co/vjE1ctLU5x
Example #3 - "I'm only looking at what makes the data fit in my favour" a.k.a moving the goalposts.
Tweets: https://t.co/vcDpTu3qyj / https://t.co/CA3N6hC2Lq
