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One thing I’ve seen change over the years is what is important at events.
I’ve watched tons of great speakers at in-person events. But now w/ YouTube, it’s not *that* different from watching them online.
But meeting great people IRL? That’s what makes or breaks an event now.
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"Don't wait to do something."
Amateur Sam Bennett uses a tattoo of his late father's final written words to motivate him.
Bennett is currently 3rd at #themasters
Underrated: sending someone a note saying “thank you for your help way back when with [______].”
Feels good for them, and feels good for you to write too. If you haven’t yet, give it a try. 🙏
Happy Thanksgiving y’all.
Assure one of the biggest venture SPV providers is shutting down citing "Current market conditions"
They are handing back funds and control. Lots of responsibility for people that did tonnes of small SPV issuance during the good times.
When most didn't charge management fees.
1/ One of the hardest things CEOs have to do is cause their team to give great feedback to each other.
Here's a thread on how I coach people to do it 🧵
true self awareness is acknowledging how revealed preferences are far superior in understanding yourself than stated preferences
eg saying you want X but always doing Y = you actually deep down are most fulfilled by Y
if youre a founder who’s found yourself in the “stop the bleeding” phase & are looking for a realistic way to accept $1k checks, hit me up. i’ll help you spin up an SPV to consolidate those small checks and will make sure that cost doesn’t get in the way
3) This means that between now and Thanksgiving, you’ll want to focus on quick checks. I would even take super small checks like $1k. Every little bit helps in the “stop the bleeding” phase.
Fun fact. They create the yellow color on the thermometer by rapidly flashing the red and green LED light, and the unit only has enough energy to power one of the lights at a time.
One of the difficult parts of depression is that ppl who want to help you often can’t help you — despite wishing w all their might they could.
& that feeling of “care doesn’t help” (/accompanying feelings of rejection, guilt-from-rejecting) manages to make it worse for everyone.
I hold my own opinion as just another unintentionally-biased & partially informed viewpoint and I can’t tell if this is my greatest feature or my greatest bug
Yup. And grass-roots people have relatively fewer well-placed promoters/amplifiers. It's the only thing that makes Ivy League people continue to *seem* more successful. This is why it's so important that we raise each-other up.
Reminds me of this old cartoon by @SMBCComics.
Via the system of status-fluffing/megaphoning within the upper-echelon community ( other open doors etc ofc), the *IDEA* that Ivy League students are all super-successful is...really well hedged.