The ideas, stories, and voices that shape how we think, how we act, and what we believe is possible.
Farnam Street Project
There are solo-entrepreneurial projects that push the world forward. Shane Parrish taking on task of aggregating the world's best mental models in one place for all of us to benefit from is one of those! One of those treasures of the world that's probably under-appreciated.
Michael Jordan's Nike ad on failure
Failure isn't the opposite of success - it's the raw material fueling extraordinary journeys. Willingness to fail is a necessary ingredient for extraordinary success!
Ben Horowitz's "Nobody Cares"
One of the most important blog posts for every entrepreneur getting started on their journey! Entrepreneurial life is full of challenges and setbacks, but in the end, nobody cares about the elaborate reasons for why things are not going well. Better to focus all your energy on finding ways to win, instead of coming up with all the elaborate reasons of why things haven't been going your way!
Garry Kasparov's mom's message to him: "If not you, then who?"
Garry Kasparov’s mother put a handwritten sign above his childhood bed when he was coming up as a chess prodigy: “If not you, who else?” May we all get a believer and promoter like her in our lives!
Whitney Wolfe Herd's story
The best revenge against being underestimated is building something so successful that it makes your doubters irrelevant.
Steve Jobs' commencement speech at Stanford
The dots only connect looking backward, so you have to trust that your bold choices today will make sense tomorrow. One of the great commencement speeches of all time!
LeBron James' Nike ad: You weren't even supposed to be here
"You weren't even supposed to be here. And yet... here you are"!
Frank Slootman's seminal post: "Amp It Up!"
High performance requires intentionally. Frank Slootman's three-point formula to excellent execution: Increase the velocity, Raise the standards, Narrow the focus! Easily one of the best posts a CEO could read. Every sentence is power packed!
Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot Speech
This 4-min segment from Carl Sagan is a beautiful reminder of the vastness of the universe beyond us, and what that may mean for each of us on how we want to play out our lives.
Apple's Think Different campaign
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
Patrick Collison's Fast Page
It's cool to see what inspires great people. The fact that Patrick Collison has a page dedicated to "examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together" on his personal website speaks to what inspires great entrepreneurs like himself, and in a way, was an inspiration for this page itself.
Roger Federer's commencement speech at Dartmouth
As graceful as his play and his entire career was, this speech by Roger Federer is full of great nuggets and lessons for those who have an ambitious vision for their lives ahead!