Some Things I Think

Nothing leads to success like unshakable faith in one big idea, and nothing sets the seeds of your downfall like an unshakable faith to one big idea.

Good marketing wins in the short run and good products win in the long run.

A good test when reading the news is to constantly ask, “Will I still care about this story in a year? Two years? Five years?”

The same traits needed for huge success are the same traits that increase the odds of failure. We should be careful praising winners or criticizing failures, because they often made similar decisions with different degrees of luck.

“It’s good to have people in your life who you don’t want to disappoint.” - Buffett

Social media makes more sense when you view it as a place people go to perform rather than a place to communicate.

Logic doesn’t persuade people. Clarity, storytelling, and appealing to self-interest do.

The best measure of wealth is what you have minus what you want. (By this measure, some billionaires are broke.)