#business Just a mess - [[Brad Feld - Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist]] <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/f4_14pZlJBs" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> - https://fs.blog/knowledge-project/walter-isaacson/ - All YCombinator content - [[Readwise/Books/Matt Ridley]] biology = business - [[Benjamin Franklin]] - [[Paul Graham]] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-TZqOsVCNM - All [[Naval Ravikant]] content - Farnam Street (fs.blog) - Lesswrong.com? <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RgP9MUFGNuk" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SO_00POR-Po" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> >A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket. >~ [[Peter Phiel - Zero to One|Peter Phiel]] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/raising-unicorns-spirit-pioneers-7-timeless-make-growth-schilling/ [[William N. Thorndike - The Outsiders - Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success|The Outsiders - Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success]] [[Kaufman, Josh - The Personal MBA]] [[fs.blog - Second-Order Thinking What Smart People Use to Outperform - Farnam Street]] [[Paul Graham - Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age|Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age]] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH1bewTg-P4 >It is far more fruitful to evaluate the desires for achievement, than it is to force discipline. If one’s desire for achievement is pure, he will be sufficiently motivated to do all that needs to be done in order to achieve. If it is not, he will play clever and ineffective games such as discipline. >~ [[Kapil Gupta - Direct Truth - Uncompromising - Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life]]