Jiro Dreams of Sushi is the best movie about Steve Jobs ever made. — Chris Dixon Take a moment to consider the following: What is quality? When you drive by Wendy’s and see “Quality is Our Recipe” on the sign you know they are full of shit, but why? This is the paradox: we all have an … Continue reading Quality.
I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do. — Charlie Munger, Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Opinions Since no one really talked about this past election, and politics are rarely an emotive topic, let’s use that to introduce the subject of today’s conversation (trust … Continue reading 50+ Shades of Gray: Opinions, Mental Models, & Probability
The single most important decision you will make in your life is who you decide to marry. Your grandparents did not meet on Tinder. Your parents did not think about double-texting when they first met. And your friends in their late thirties were not interpreting emojis. Think about it. Less than 5 years ago, an … Continue reading The Millennial Marriage Manifesto
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‘Where’s the self-help section?’ She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. — George Carlin I will bet you a book that I have heard every excuse for why people do not read more often. Most of the benefits are self-evident (e.g. books make you … Continue reading 10 Books & 5 Essays to Read Before 30
Betty Draper: How are the [bottles] already open? Ronnie Gittridge: Betty, we don’t want life to look difficult, now do we? Mad Men, Season 1: Episode 9 Relatively few people want to run 100 miles at one time. That is roughly the distance from Atlanta to Chattanooga, Salzburg to Innsbruck, or mental health to insanity. … Continue reading How to Run 100 Miles in a Day or So
Fred Jung: Money isn’t real, George. It doesn’t matter. It only seems like it does. Young George: Are you gonna tell Mom that? Fred Jung: Yeah, that’s gonna be a tricky one. — Blow (2001) My evolving theory is that rap music is the purest commercial form of ego expression (perhaps its own post one day). In … Continue reading The Financial Wisdom of Rap Music
If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it Anything you want to, do it — Willy Wonka, Pure Imagination (1971) The 24 hours threw me off. It started with a phone call in February to my friend Sam I hadn’t spoken to in years. Before the call ended, as a last-second … Continue reading 24 Hours in the Desert: The World’s Toughest Mud Run
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