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Published podcast speaker
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service / uses
“They used to have this Malibu chicken dish was like magic. And then it was probably, I don't know if people know this, and I know this is rapid fire, but I used to stutter when I started working at Sizzler and Sizzler is what allowed me to break out of my shell and not stutter.”
book / recommends
“The Bible and Tech in My Mind, there's Innovator's Dilemma and Innovator's Solution from Clayton Christensen. I think you have to read that book and I'd say I'd recommend to people that read it every few years. And the other one that I love is Ben Horowitz's book. Hard Thing about Hard Things really talks about how you manage your psychology when things get hard. I think those are the ones, I am not a big believer that you keep reading thousands of books all the time because I think to me, retention really matters. And my brain's just not that big that I can retain that much. So, I tend to distill the essence of a few things quite a bit more, and at least as the older I've gotten, I've actually used that pattern more.”
book / recommends
“The Bible and Tech in My Mind, there's Innovator's Dilemma and Innovator's Solution from Clayton Christensen. I think you have to read that book and I'd say I'd recommend to people that read it every few years. And the other one that I love is Ben Horowitz's book. Hard Thing about Hard Things really talks about how you manage your psychology when things get hard. I think those are the ones, I am not a big believer that you keep reading thousands of books all the time because I think to me, retention really matters. And my brain's just not that big that I can retain that much. So, I tend to distill the essence of a few things quite a bit more, and at least as the older I've gotten, I've actually used that pattern more.”
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8 transcript-backed records
01 / belief
“What I try not to do is I try to minimize my time no matter how successful they are with people whose energy I don't vibe with, because I think life's too short.”
02 / belief
“I would take zero credit for it. I think she deserves a lot of credit for growing up to be who she's become.”
03 / belief
“Infrastructure is a different game. And the thing that I learned about infrastructure is, you don't always get the glory, but you always get the blame.”
04 / belief
“You can't be stingy with words over there. And don't be stingy with critique in public, because I think people need to make sure that, "We are solving problems together.”
05 / belief
“I agree with you in the sense that if generating code is something that becomes abundant, that doesn't mean you're going to have better technology just because you can generate a lot of code.”
06 / belief
“I feel like it's very important to have smart people, but you can become smart if you have curiosity and hunger and staying power and persistence. And so I think that trait of learning to learn and constantly being hungry and having the stamina and persistence is far more important than the absolute measure of intellect that you might have, because that is very, very trainable and learnable over time and improvable over time.”
07 / belief
“Now I think about it, do a podcast for my daughter that's only for her when she gets older.”
08 / belief
“The older I get, the more I believe that we are actually in a simulation. The first time I heard that concept, I thought it was such an absurd concept.”