Thought provoking

I think one thing that is a really important thing to strive for is being internally driven, being driven to compete with yourself, not with other people. If you compete with other people, you end up in this mimetic trap, and you sort of play this tournament, and if you win, you lose. But if you’re competing with yourself, and all you’re trying to ... See more

The world has become an infinite scroll of short-lived certainties. And time flicks through them increasingly faster.

And even if something new is on the horizon and feels a bit more like a lasting change, it’s usually something that makes everything else much more brittle, like AI, the climate crisis, or the so-called pre-war era we’re apparently ... See more

Cada noche en Omaha teníamos una cena, pero no una tradicional. En su lugar, tuvimos cenas del Jeffersonian. (Matt Stafford, a quien tuve el placer de conocer en una conferencia en Suiza, escribió un libro sobre las cenas Jeffersonianas y las ha convertido en una ciencia.

Thomas Jefferson organizaba este tipo de cenas en la Casa Blanca cuando era pr... See more

Michael Jordan left basketball to play baseball and it didn't go exactly as he had planned, there were a bunch of reasons why. And then the baseball strike happened and he starts playing with the Bulls again […] That to me is actually not a story about him getting back to the thing he was good at. It's a story about somebody who had the courage to ... See more