Most people are not in the position to be as candid as they want to be.
Today, I re-listened a VERY HONEST interview with Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) on @TKPPodcast.
For the 3rd time.
He is is an extremely confident humble person and the talk is pure gold. Highly recommend it. Hats off to @ShaneAParrish!
I combined key learnings below 👇
Most people are not in the position to be as candid as they want to be.
It demystifies your 'greatness’, makes it more normal, and lets others relate.
It leads to an inevitable moment when people start questioning their happiness.
They are willing to be happy in the way they defined it to themselves.
Older generations were just checking the boxes.
Many people realize that it is not the pattern to maximize their fulfillment.
Happy engineer is better than an unhappy engineer.
Happy artist is better than an unhappy artist.
And so on.
Being honest leads to happiness. When you lie to someone you first lie to yourself.
The more comfort you have with yourself, your self-worth, and your limitations the more honest you can be.
Running a happiness race with money is more distractive than if you do it without money.
Path to happiness is an internal process.
Freedom one is easily copied.
We should provide them a reasonable roadmap that they can execute.
The opportunity is to curate and cultivate a community around that to help people. For everyone.
These are very simple, hierarchical ideas.
Figure out the right mix of early vs. late stage, public vs. private then you can come up with the answer.
If you take a look at Amazon's PnL and zoom in at every single expense line, you will see that he created a product around it and made it a revenue line.
That is why capital allocation is an amazing skill.
+ you want long-term growth
+ the higher the growth the better
+ in areas that matter for people
In 10 years from now, it is going to be a playbook that works.
@elonmusk enters the room 🚪
You are always going to fight with yourself.
Numerous psychological traps:
- panicking
- overreacting
- underreacting
- refusing to observe the present
- living too much in the past
- wanting to much to believe in the future
That is a good strategy. It solves your blind spots.
Protect you from yourself.
It is a money-making strategy.
Spending time understanding yourself is enormously helpful.
If you will be fundamentally inoffensive in your opinions upfront, you find people who have extreme opinions will talk to you in a very unguarded way.
Train yourself to be seduced by these people, so you can learn from them.
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This time in 2004 was very sensitive. Our little team at Press for Change was carefully helping to support the government to get the Gender Recognition Bill through its parliamentary stages. It had already started in the Lords and faced a committee stage with evangelical-backed..
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..account of events. Our political backdrop was a small but determined effort by two evangelical groups touting very familiar lies about trans people and, perhaps more worrying, a couple of contemporary journalists (one a Guardian staffer and one a freelance) determined to tout..
..detransition scare stories as a way to perhaps cast doubt over formalising a legal recognition process. The thing that was obvious at the time was that their stories relied on constant recycling of the same 10-12 case stories, which they had discovered because they were the..
Found a podcast by Keira Bell talking about her reasons for detransitioning
— Lux \U0001f3f3\ufe0f\u200d\U0001f308 (@Lux_fae) February 2, 2021
Listened to it so you don't have to
Wherein, at the 24-30 min mark, keira talks about her reasons for detransition and admits she did it for her ideology alone.
Thread:
This time in 2004 was very sensitive. Our little team at Press for Change was carefully helping to support the government to get the Gender Recognition Bill through its parliamentary stages. It had already started in the Lords and faced a committee stage with evangelical-backed..
..opposition facing the government’s Bill minister Lord Filkin and and others from all parties supporting him. The heavy lifting of daily liaison work was handled on our side by my colleague Claire @2legged whose back room lobby efforts should never go unacknowledged in any..
..account of events. Our political backdrop was a small but determined effort by two evangelical groups touting very familiar lies about trans people and, perhaps more worrying, a couple of contemporary journalists (one a Guardian staffer and one a freelance) determined to tout..
..detransition scare stories as a way to perhaps cast doubt over formalising a legal recognition process. The thing that was obvious at the time was that their stories relied on constant recycling of the same 10-12 case stories, which they had discovered because they were the..
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