I am leaving this as a record for myself, more than for anyone else who might stumble upon this in the future.
One of my favourite podcast episodes ever, Terry Crews with Tim Ferriss, in transcript form. When I first found out about the nature of the universe, I had some doubts. These all but dissolved when I heard Terry Crews' story. He came from the hood in Flint, Michigan and became a prodigious artist, NFL football player, actor, producer, and now furniture designer. The book that changed his life was The Master Key System.
[O]ne of the concepts in the book is that, in order to have, you have to do. And, in order to do, you have to be. And I sat, and I would contemplate this thing a lot. And I was like what does this mean?
How to do what you love, by Paul Graham
Brain Pickings on Vera Rubin's Berkeley commencement speech. Commencement speeches are awesome. The grand irony is that I never attended my own commencement. What struck me is how much of the following passage applies to those who choose to pursue startups.
And for those of you who choose to be scientists, I have one piece of advice. Don’t give up. Science is hard and demanding, but each of you must believe that you can succeed. It may seem unlikely tonight, but there is not one among you who cannot make important, major contributions to the world of science. At my commencement on May 17, 48 years ago, the probability that I would be addressing you tonight surely was zero.
Seth Godin, on poets, possibility, valuing attention, and the digital swirl. I get an email from his newsletter every day, and it's genuinely something I look forward to daily.
Dropbox's Y Combinator application
Money and the Law of Attraction, by Esther Hicks.
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