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The good life is a life nurtured by a healthy sense of self-worth, brightened by a positive outlook, warmed by a loving family and loyal friends, grounded in congenial and challenging work, and made meaningful by an involvement in something
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“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.”
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“Every university believes in “excellence,” and hundred-page course catalogs arranged alphabetically according to arbitrary departments of knowledge seem designed to reassure you that “it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it well.” That is completely false. It does matter what you do. You should focus relentlessly on something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.”
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“God He knows we need men more and more in the Game.”
― Kim
― Kim
Doug’s 2025 Year in Books
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