by Roberto Zoia
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I was reading an old article by Y Combinator’s founder Paul Graham titled Microsoft is Dead, written in 2007.
His point was that in 2007, nobody –meaning nobody in the startup scene, or nobody who cared about computers– was scared by Microsoft anymore. Microsoft was effectively dead.
It’s been five years since the dark wizard was thrown of the company. I wonder if we can already say that Microsoft is coming back from death.
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From James Clear’s 3-2-1 newsletter:
If you want to be in the top 1% of a particular domain, then you can’t take your cues from and follow the social norms of 99% of people.
This is harder than it sounds. We are wired to imitate. The further you want to climb, the more carefully you need to construct your tribe.
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Four reasons why, according to The Economist’s article Why WeWork doesn’t work yet – Daily chart, investors are unsure about WeWork’s parent company IPO:
Lack of profits is usually acceptable for tech companies that are burning cash in customer acquisition. But WeWork is not a tech company. Tech companies have, among other things, very low marginal costs for each new customer acquired.
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Tyler Cowen, in Reading and rabbit holes:
Follow the questions, not the books per se. Don’t focus on which books to read, focus on which questions to ask. Then the books, and other sources, will follow almost automatically.
(via Brain Food, Farnam Street’s weekly newsletter.)
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Seth Godin, in The room where it happens:
The best way to be in the room where it happens is to be the person who called the meeting.
Things rarely happen on their own. Everyone is waiting for you to organize the next thing.
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Ryan Holiday writing about anger, What If I Said No? (And Other Questions to Consider Daily):
You gave them very careful instructions, which they disregarded, leading to costly consequences for you both. You’re a very courteous driver, yet this person is still honking and flipping you off. You’ve asked your kid 50 times to work on their school project, and here they are the night before, complaining that they need help.
These are trademark frustrating situations. Ones that are very easy to get angry about — it’s natural, even.
But just because it’s “natural” doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. Marcus Aurelius wrote in Mediations, “how much more harmful are the consequences of anger… than the circumstances that aroused them in us.”
Anger almost always makes things worse. It almost always compounds the harm — it takes a situation that was already unfortunate and makes it more so. Getting angry isn’t good for your heart. It’s not good for your mind. It’s not good for the people around you. So leave it alone.
Worth reading the whole article.