Ryan Roslansky: “The people who are winning right now, they’re not the ones with the best credentials. They’re the ones who are taking control of their career…There’s no single route up. You can go sideways, you can go diagonal, you can even go down to find a better path. The path that works for you, that’s unique to who you are — and that’s the whole point.”
SaaStr: “The single biggest variable in whether an agent actually works is not the model, not the prompt, not even the vendor. It’s whether you get a real human from the vendor helping you deploy it.”
FT: “Judgment: of all the traits that go into making a successful life, it must be the least understood, and so the most overlooked. Talent, of which intelligence is a subset, gets much of the attention. Parents go to the wall as a result of school fees and the like to maximise whatever quotient of it their children have. Hard work, or the “grind”, is the subject of almost all motivational podcasts. Even luck gets its due, as perhaps it didn’t a generation ago. “White”, “pretty” and “straight” are just three varieties of “privilege” in the parlance of the young. Next to all these factors, there is much less talk of (and even agreement on how to spell) judgment, which is the habit of making good decisions.”
WSJ: “A startup called LiquidPiston has spent more than a decade developing a new kind of rotary engine that it says can be both more efficient and compact than traditional piston engines. The spark plug ignites a fuel-air mix, causing the rotor to turn a shaft, creating motion. Exhaust escapes through the rotor.”
