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Category: Notes

  • The Spectrum Of Abstraction

    Abstraction, for me, is this idea of getting rid of everything that’s not essential to making a point.

    – Christoph Niemann

  • Curiosity Compounds

    Investing starts with what you can learn, not what you know. Over and over.

    – Nick Grossman

  • No Prima Donnas

    A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

    – Freeman Dyson

  • The Great Illusion

    If you want to get wealthy in the financial markets, you’ll need to engage in hard and systematic work.

    – David Abrams

  • Retired But Working

    I have always preferred the system of retirement where you can’t quite tell, observing from the outside, whether the man is working or retired. A problem in many businesses, particularly the bureaucratic ones, is your employees retire, but they don’t tell you.

    – Charlie Munger

  • The Product Behind The Products

    Making a product is hard, but making a team that can continually make products is even harder. The product I’m most proud of is Apple — and the team I built at Apple.

    – Steve Jobs

  • Keep Trying

    A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

    – B. F. Skinner

  • Distribution Before Innovation

    The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup gets distribution before the incumbent gets innovation.

    – Alex Rampell

  • Fragmentation Without Ideas

    Reform this time will be more brutal. China presses; Pakistan threatens; non-alignment collapses and America drives hard bargains. The new world cannot be denied. Incapable of lasting reform, or of a correct interpretation of the new world, India is, profoundly, dependent. She depends on others now both for questions and answers; foreign journalists are more important in India than in any other country. And India is fragmented; it is part of her dependence. This is not the fragmentation of region, religion or caste. It is the fragmentation of a country held together by no intellectual current, no developing inner life of its own. It is the fragmentation of a country without even an idea of a graded but linked society.

    – V.S. Naipaul, writing in 1967 (India Essays)