That list of people for whom I would do anything is my prized possession.
When we were starting CAA we didn't even have a lawyer. We were making hundreds of deals with no contracts, so people had to keep their word.
Growing up, we didn't have pictures of our parents on the walls. We just had old math competition trophies.
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.
You've got to learn to enjoy failure if you want to improve things.
To get there we have to strive. We have to go through failure. In my case I counted it. I failed 5,127 times.
The most fundamentally important thing that you do in life is choose who's around you.
I'm never satisfied. There's always something wrong. I've got to go on improving it. I'm just driven like that.
Experts are dangerous. There's an assumption that experts do things correctly or in the most clever way. It's not true.
I think there are certain human beings that are gifted with some raw innate processing power that is just greater than others
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