QUOTES

I realized that fast inference was going to matter. No one else did.

I didn't need a skillset other than intelligence, persuasion, intensity, and curiosity.

This is how greatness gets evaporated: you lose focus.

You know you've found your principle when it starts informing literally every decision you make every day with your time.

What if the only thing I was allowed to do in my life was help three people? Who would they be, and what would I do for them?

I would get pretty obsessed with individual topics, and sort of go deep on them. I wouldn't consider myself generally interested in a bunch of things. I was super deep on certain things that excited me or interested me.

Money, power, and fame are huge traps.

Quality in people is rare. Quality in ideas is rare.

When you're creating a new business in an area that has never been done, or with some new technology, or new business model — there's no playbook. And if you hire the people from the adjacent industry companies and ask them to go do it, they're just going to go do what they were doing before.

That list of people for whom I would do anything is my prized possession.