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Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
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Bryan Brinson
@beb
Garry Tan isn't just the CEO of Y Combinator.
He's also a passionate writer, has a YouTube channel with 251,000 subscribers, and once turned a $300k investment into $2 billion.
Here are 10 of his best ideas:
1. How to write a good YC application: Teach the reader something… Show more
Step Two: Unbundle Students from Universities Universities could continue to exist as a combination of a local community and a filtering mechanism. A university is still a great way to find friends or a partner, assuming it continues to filter out people you're unlikely to have as close of a relationship with.
Nat Eliason • College After COVID: How to Get the Best of Both Worlds - Nat Eliason
Chuck Benemerito
@cbenemerito
Bufford firmly believed that it was Trilogy’s culture—with its emphasis on people and service before earnings—that formed the company’s competitive edge.
Edward Hess • Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses
Bob Freudenheim
@bobfreudenheim
The Fields Medal is the highest honor a mathematician can receive. Paul Erdös never won it. But a number of the people he helped did, and that leads us to what Erdös is best known for: the “Erdös number.” No, it was not a theorem or a mathematical tool. It was simply a measure of how close you were to working with Paul Erdös.
Eric Barker • Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
“I’m both a professor and student, because if you’re no longer a student, you don’t have the right to call yourself a professor.”