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"Never make a decision when you need to pee."

Leonard Cohen

People are so used to talking about minimum acceptable outcomes in education that they truly have no idea how high variance educational outcomes can/should be.

The top quartile of students can skip grades. The top 2% of students can do an entire multi year curriculum in *weeks*.

You have no idea how much life success comes from having the raw audacity to ask for things and just working with a diligent focus to be competent.

People inherently respect those traits so much that they feel a moral obligation to provide opportunities for you.

"No veo la miseria que hay, sino la belleza que aún queda".

Ana Frank

“A brand is a shared cultural belief about a company or product. It’s not just what I think about a brand that defines that brand to me. It’s also what I think other people think about that brand, and how they’ll judge me for buying it.”

and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?

- charles bukowski

Being “good at hiring” means either accurately betting on undiscovered talent or being good at persuading obvious talent.

“Confidence comes from preparation.”

— Kobe Bryant

"You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to me being vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose."