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View from Above the Hollow Issue #13

View from Above the Hollow Issue #13

This is what I found interesting this week.

November 13, 2022

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The Sweet Spot For Doing Great Work Speaking to entrepreneurs at the startup incubator Y Combinator, the billionaire Peter Thiel drew a Venn diagram on a whiteboard. In one of the overlapping circles, he wrote, “seems like a bad idea,” and in the other, “is a good idea.” The intersection is the sweet spot for

What looks like discipline is often a carefully created environment to encourage certain behaviors. What looks like poor choices is often someone trying their best to use willpower to go against their environment.

Tiny Thought:

"What looks like poor choices is often someone trying their best to use willpower to go against their environment."

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Wisdom is the ability to see both sides and weigh them appropriately. #principleoftheday
— Ray Dalio (@RayDalio)
6:38 PM • Nov 9, 2022

professional advice. at the start of your career, you’ll underestimate how far being top 15% in attention to detail will get you. company experts are surrounded by people who don’t see what they see. if you show really solid attention to detail, experts will fight to hire you
— дэн (@dan_abramov)
2:46 AM • Nov 12, 2022

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