“Tech executives began to both realize that they can’t just ignore regulatory and political issues and that not all politicians and regulators are inherently stupid, lazy, and corrupt.”
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“If the lesson is more valuable than the pride and shame of making the mistake itself, then it wasn’t truly a mistake at all.”
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“‘People would be pissed if someone else leaked something,’ explained one former employee. ‘You don’t betray the family.’”
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“There’s a big difference between skills and experience. A 25-year-old who has been reading, learning, and implementing new information for five years will have more skills than an “experienced” 35-year-old who spent 10 years coasting.”
Modern Art Became Famous Because The CIA Secretly Funded It
“Why did the CIA support [modern artists]? Because in the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be held up as proof of the creativity, the intellectual freedom, and the cultural power of the US.”
How To Retire In Your Thirties
“The most important thing you need for early retirement is an ability to break out of conventional societal programming — the persistent notion that a person has to work for four or five decades and retire at 65 or later to live a productive, fulfilling, “normal” life.”
Is Non-Curiosity The New Standard?
“The decline of thoughtful media has been discussed for a century. This is not new. What is new: A fundamental shift not just in the profit-seeking gatekeepers, but in the culture as a whole.”
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“People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” — Leonardo da Vinci
How To Get What You Want In A Negotiation
Everything’s negotiable, but not everything should be negotiated.
Too often negotiations become about winners and losers when that’s not the point.
Both sides ratchet up the pressure on each other — and themselves — to the point where they lose sight of what they wanted in the first place.
It doesn’t have to be so complicated.
Here’s how to approach your next negotiation to ensure you get what you want.
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“Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.” — Albert Einstein