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“One book that is extremely wonky, and I can only take it in very small doses, but is magnificent, is one called The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose, who's this brilliant mathematician. And it will be very daunting for anybody unless you're a deep math person, but his brilliance in erudition just shines through in this thing. And it's an amazing book. I would say there's another book, boy, I wish I could remember the name. Maybe you can get the name of the author called Gene by this geneticist. And I think he's a Harvard Medical School professor that's about the history of genetics and he is an absolutely luminous writer. I mean, it puts me to shame. I'm embarrassed when I read it because I think how pedestrian my writing is and incredibly knowledgeable about the history of genetics and I think that's such an important topic. So those are two that I would recommend highly, fairly wonky, but I like them both.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“The other one which is somewhat more profound I think was one that I had a famous Sri Lankan journalist was a mentor of mine and very dear friend, and he had a favorite expression that I adhere to all the time, which is everything is always about something else.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I mean, I think that your place and how you connect to it has an important grounding effect. And then before I talked earlier about creativity and I think surrounding yourself in an environment that stimulates that is really important.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I'm always looking for it because if you find it it probably means it's so obscure there, it'll also be a great investment opportunity.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Here's our grand master plan, here's an amazing strategy or just read about startup ideas and don't actually try it. I love this final note of just try it.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Read the book, and then have conversations with your colleagues about the topic because as you internalize what that means and how, have conversations with them about do we really have this kind of power?”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think you could turn almost anywhere and get some modest network effects and any platform business would probably likely have some modest network effects.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Kind of along these same lines, you talk about how the only things that create value in a company are power, market size and operational excellence. And I think hearing that will blow a lot of people's minds because they think there's so many things that contribute to the value of a company and you whittle it down to these three things.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Essentially the argument here is your power informs everything you do because this is the thing that'll allow you to stay durable and competitive and last.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I'm a great fan of the great mathematician, John von Neumann, and he had a view which really irritated a lot of mathematicians, which is that if mathematics wasn't guided by what was useful, it would become, I think the word he used was aesthetic to aesthetic.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think that over time there, if I had to guess, I'd say they're probably modest scale economies in the business.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“So moat is the second. So it's not synonymous with power because you can have a moat around a very undesirable piece of property and wouldn't get you far.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“He got a lot of people of the Harvard Business School faculty really mad at him because that's what their careers were about and it sounded like he was dissing them. But the point he was making was when you get to this end state, if you already have power that things that drive operational excellence can be mimicked because you can hire a consulting firm who has best practices, knowledges that come in and get you up to snuff.”
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- Lenny's Podcast