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You are protecting an identity that stopped serving yo, it is only safe and comfortable in your head.
Be audacious and kill the “old you” identity.
You will be alright.
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亚历山大·王（Alexandr Wang）在谈到“如何拉开与 99% 人的差距”时，给出了极其朴素甚至残酷的答案：
顶层竞争根本不拼智商，拼的是极端执行力的非对称倾斜。
他的三条核心准则：
1. 绝对聚焦，压榨认知带宽： 绝大多数人的忙碌只是“低密度伪勤奋”。真正的专注是把全部精力砸在唯一的核心支点上，拒绝任何无关干扰。
2. 把“过度交付”做成护城河： 行业标准要求走 1 英里，你就走完 10 英里。当所有人都按合同完成 100% 时，常态化交付 200% 的人会直接卷走全部声誉与溢价。
3. 带靶向的超额输出，拒绝无目的内耗： 努力不是盲目自我感动，而是针对具体目标的持续过载测试。把每一次交付都当成生死决战来打。
商业世界最公平的一点在于：
聪明人到处都是，但能忍受极度枯燥并长期超额交付的人凤毛麟角。
执行力溢出，就是最暴力的护城河。
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Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky: “The US is not that competitive. Europe is even less competitive.”
“China is competitive.”
“China is 9/9/6. Even if you are good in Europe, or in the US, how can you out-compete the people who work 9:00 to 9:00, six days a week?”
“I started in a co-working space with 140 companies. Within 5 years, only 3 companies survived. They all worked on the weekends.”
“Within 10 years, only 2 companies survived out of 140.”
“Working weekends is a must if you want to survive. Purely statistically.”
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i bet you didn’t know about the SMARTPHONE MAFIA?
THE SCALE MAFIA
one of the most special parts of starting a company is watching the people you fought and bled with in the early days go out and change the world.
the Scale crew was supernatural. @scale_ai was one of the first companies to IOI and IMO-maxx, and the magic of Scale was that all of these geniuses gave a shit and ran through walls. it's no wonder that the Scale mafia is the first true mafia of the modern tech era. just to name a few:
- cognition founder @stevenkplus1 & president @russelljkaplan
- modal founder @akshat_b
- tech & science advisor to POTUS @mkratsios47
- claude code head of product @_catwu
- kpcb partners @LM_Braswell & @nayakkayak
- bun founder @jarredsumner
- tbd head of product @lindugong
- netic founder @melisatokmak
- cobot founder @BradPorter_
- secureframe founder @shravvmehtaa
- paramount skydance cfo @DennisKCinelli
- thinking machines gc lauren lennon
- partner at greylock @sophia_luo_
- liquid ai coo jeffrey li
- gallatin ai founder @agilemofo
- tbd safety @_julianmichael_
- center for ai safety president @devindkim
[photo courtesy the beautiful wedding of @thenateherman (who in many ways was a cofounder of Scale) and @ChristinaG325]
" A port is an asset. It is not a strategy"
Ethiopia Is Growing at 9.2 Percent Without a Coastline. Uganda at 6 Percent. Rwanda at 7.2 Percent.
Africa's Fastest Growing Economies Are Landlocked and That Should Force Every Coastal Nation to Ask Hard Questions.
uchumi360.com/e/g/ethiopia-g…
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Economics is a social science. Unlike the laws of physics, economic laws are neither timeless nor universal. They are historically contingent, shaped by social relations and institutions, and vary across time and space.
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قناة DW الألمانية أنتجت وثائقي عن المهاجرين في ضواحي باريس، وركزت فيه على مجموعتين عايشين في نفس المنطقة.
من جهة، فيه حوالي ٧٠ ألف فرنسي من أصول صينية. في أوبرفيلييه، بضواحي باريس الشمالية، بنوا أكبر مركز لبيع الملابس بالجملة في أوروبا. حياتهم بسيطة يقومون بدري ويشتغلون لين وقت متأخر، يديرون ورش صغيرة، ويمسكون محلاتهم، ويوصلون البضايع. يرجعون يحطون اللي يكسبونه في تجارتهم، وإذا ضاقت عليهم، يدبرون أمورهم ويحاولون يتجاوزونها بنفسهم. غالبا هادين وبعيدين عن الأضواء، ونادر يطلبون إعانات خاصة من الحكومة، وما ينزلون الشوارع عشان يثيرون الفوضى. ومع مرور السنين، زاد عدد العوايل اللي اشترت بيوت وكبرت تجارتها.
وعلى الجهة الثانية، جاليات المهاجرين من شمال أفريقيا، ساكنين في نفس الحي. اندماجهم الاقتصادي في المنطقة ما تقدم كثير. لكن الوثائقي رصد تغير خفي في طريقة التفكير و هي نظرة بدأت تنتشر بهدوء تعتبر اللي يعتمد على نفسه نوع من التهديد.
بحسب اللي رصده الفيلم، بعض اللي واجهوا صعوبة في الاندماج يميلون يشوفون أنفسهم ضحايا، ويحسون إن المجتمع مدين لهم بالكثير. بس يوم يلتفتون ويشوفون الصينيين اللي جنبهم، تتغير نظرتهم. وبدل ما يتعلمون منهم التجارة، يتعاملون معهم كمنافسين.
طيب، من وين جاي هالعداء؟ أوضح نقطة صدام هي إن الصينيين كل ما نجحوا أكثر، صار التمسك برواية المظلومية أصعب. الكل هنا جاي من برا، ويواجه نفس صعوبات الغربة. وحتى الصينيين يوم جوا، كثير منهم ما كانوا يتكلمون فرنسي، ولا عندهم علاقات في البلد. فإذا فيه شخص يقدر يكد ١٢ ساعة وزيادة في اليوم، ويرتب حياته شوي شوي، يصير صعب تردد عبارة (إحنا متعثرين لأن الدنيا ظالمة) واحد يصدقك
اللي يبني نفسه بجهده وبدون ضجة، غالبا يضايق اللي تعود يلوم الظروف والعالم ويعيش في عقليه الضحيه.
وفيه اختلاف ثاني عميق في فهم الثروة. كثير من اللي يطالبون بالإعانات يشوفون الثروة كأنها كيكة حجمها ثابت، تقاسموها الناس وخلاص. ما يشوفون كيف قامت محلات الجملة هذي، وكيف أصحابها شالوا البضايع بأيديهم، كرتون ورا كرتون. كل اللي يشوفونه إن ربح المحلات الصينية جاي على حسابهم.
وزد على هذا إن الصينيين متعودين على الصبر وتفويت المشاكل. إذا صار خلاف، عادي يختارون يعدون الموضوع عشان يحافظون على الهدوء. ومع هالخلل في التفكير، تتحول المسألة بسرعة إلى مشاكل أمنية. سطو، وترصد، واعتداءات في الشوارع، تتكرر ضد هالناس اللي كل اللي يبونه يعيشون بهدوء ويسترزقون.
" people think every day is a day added to their life but each day is another day subtracted from what is left of our lives. By that logic, each minute you spend gets more expensive as you have fewer left"
This is a very interesting conversation. Time is the most valuable resource in the universe, and you need to spend quality time with your family. The thing is, your family also needs you to be functional and earn enough money to take care of them. It is a huge dilemma.
I did the same doubling-of-rates thing to get my time back, and immediately after I got some breathing space last year, an extended-family health emergency got me scrambling back into gigs that took my time again.
I'm spending time on projects I thought I would never do again. I now do strategy work for companies and people smaller than those I worked with before.
One thing I have learned is to make sure I carry my family along. My son was helping me book meetings before he went to school. When my daughter was 8 years old, she used to look at my Google Calendar, see when I didn't have meetings, and book playtime with me.
I now understand why some very successful people turn their businesses into family businesses: it is the only way they can share time with their family. A mentor shared his food service business with his children and their spouses, and they all run it together. My wife’s aunt has her two kids in there with her 6 days a week, running her trading business.
Maybe if I start this fish thing that I have been postponing, I will make it a family thing. Consulting and selling my time has taken a toll on everything else. I don't even have enough time to turn it into products or paid content that I don't have to deliver by myself. 2027 will be very different, with higher consulting rates. Time gets more valuable as you grow older.
I listened to something that stopped me cold this week. It was something like - people think every day is a day added to their life but each day is another day subtracted from what is left of our lives. By that logic, each minute you spend gets more expensive as you have fewer left.
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Do you'll know that in Zimbabwe we study William Shakespeare. Charles Dickens. Jane Austen. Mark Twain. William Blake. William Golding. George Orwell. The Bronte sisters.
The same literature texts that you study.
To add icing on the cake, we also appreciate our own world recognised African giants in literature. Wole Soyinka. Chinua Achebe. Ngugi Wathiongo. Charles Mungoshi. Mariama Ba. Chimamanda Ngozie Adichi. Tsitsi Dangarembga. Yvonne Vera. Dambudzo Marechera. Too many to mention.
Don't ever, in your life underestimate what we can do with words.
Zimbabwean author denies using AI to write award-winning story bbc.in/47Sjn6s
