Just because you see the future doesn’t mean you’re close to it.
“Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.” – Paul Saffo
Hardest lesson for impatient people
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Peter Cundill’s tips for a good life:
1. Exercise between half an hour and two hours every day. Do more on Saturdays. Take one day off every two months. Keep your body fat at less than 10%.
2. Don't be afraid of eating junk food but eat lots of fruit as well. It you choose to eat fat-free yoghurt, make sure you complement this with plenty of hot-dogs, hamburgers and French fries.
3. Sleep a lot.
4. Read even more.
5. Drink alcohol two days a week; once in a while to excess.
6. Cigarettes are bad. Cigars after a meal are good.
7. Be curious. Never stop learning.
8. Once a year run a marathon. Once a year do something that scares the shit out of you: a bungie jump, the Cresta run, white-water rafting.
9. Laugh a lot but be reflective.
10. Strive for balance through contradictions.
11. Be a warrior. Be a priest. Be a monk. Be a hedonist.
12. Reason and passion go together but not reason before passion.
13. Rotate between day-dreaming and acute awareness. Do reality checks and focus on detail.
14. Think positive thoughts even when you're lying to yourself. The brain doesn't know the difference.
15. Seek balance through harmonizing the different aspects of life: physical, spiritual, emotional, sexual.
16. The physical world is illusion but deal with it as if it were real. At every moment in all societies contradictions are developing and these inevitably lead to discontinuities. In his book "Beyond the Mexique Bay," Aldous Huxley wrote, "Life is a series of routines punctuated by orgies." It is and it should be, and neither Huxley nor I mean it in the purely conventional sense.
17. The Roman stoic philosopher Seneca said a lot of useful things. Here are a few: "Happiness is balance; to teach is also to learn; knowing is better than remembering; we are born unequal, we die equal; to govern is to serve, not to rule."
18. Be passionate but avoid zealotry.
19. Be politically correct. Be a Bubba. Use Bill Clinton as a role model. Wear sackcloth and enjoy pain. Lead an opulent lifestyle.
20. Own a house. Enjoy hotel rooms.
21. Travel to extremes. Consider each resting place a sanctuary and a home.
22. Strive for high levels of awareness. Enjoy brain moments.
23. Be responsible but remember that the ultimate freedom is the utter absence of obligation.
24. Be highly principled, but be flexible and above all fair.
25. Be optimistic, or be pessimistic but above all be realistic.
26. Seek order, confront chaos, retreat from the maelstrom.
27. Be open, but you can keep a few dark secrets.
28. Be a historian, be a prophet.
29. Be deductive. Be inductive.
29. The stock market is almost always wrong; once in a while it is right.
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Seeking credit dulls the shine of the deed. If it needs your name on it, it probably wasn’t that selfless.
— my sister
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Humbled that @AWilkinson and I were named Distinguished Entrepreneurs of the Year by @uvic. Success is a team sport - thanks to everyone who's been part of the journey.
uvic.ca/news/topics/2025+dey…
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"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
⁃Buffett
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Some of my worst decisions in life and business came after asking smart, well-meaning mentors for advice.
Advice is often like being given the perfect recipe; but your pantry’s full of different ingredients.
Different timing. Different team. Different tools.
And once someone gives advice, they get invested in you following it. If you don’t, they think you didn’t listen. If you do, and it backfires; well, that’s on you.
Stories, on the other hand, don’t come with strings. They let you hear what someone actually did, and figure out what fits your situation.
Ask for stories.
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Everywhere you look: people stuck in the past, still arguing with ghosts.
“If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion.”
— Ashleigh Brilliant
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Ever noticed rewards can make tasks less enjoyable? A study by Lepper, Greene, & Nisbett (1973) found that kids who loved drawing lost interest after being given stars as rewards. Without the stars, they’d still be drawing happily! This is known as the overjustification effect.
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“We must believe in luck, for how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?” – Jean Cocteau
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“The iron rule of nature is: You get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.”
- Charlie Munger
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Any year that you don't destroy one of your best loved ideas is probably a wasted year.
- Charlie Munger
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So, picture this: You’re at a bar, and it’s like the busiest night ever. The bartender’s zipping around like The Flash, and there’s this mob just elbowing their way to the front, all vying for attention.
At first, you’re just standing there, feeling invisible in the chaos. Then you start this awkward dance – an erratic head bob, sorta half-raising your arm, desperately trying to catch the bartender’s eye. It’s like silently shouting in a crowded room, each failed attempt ramping up your anxiety.
But then, bam! The bartender locks eyes with you and gives you that nod, the universal “I got you” signal.
That moment! It’s like you exist again. It’s wild how just being seen can cut through the noise. Makes you think about doing the same for others. It’s a game-changer, especially when everyone’s just looking to be recognized in the chaos.
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"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
- Alberto Brandolini
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Finding happiness shouldn’t be hard. The challenge? Trying to surpass others in joy. Montesquieu’s wisdom: We misjudge the happiness in others, making ours harder to find.
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Happy to announce we’re partnering with @letterboxd! Echoing Scorsese, ‘Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things.’ Excited to start this journey of discovery and connection.
More in the @nytimes article: nytimes.com/2023/09/29/busin…
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My spirit animal is a sloth. I aspire for low sustenance to survive and a food source with minimal competition
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Picture a neglected garden—left alone, it quickly turns into a tangle of weeds. In physics, that’s entropy: the natural drift from order to disorder without input. This applies to business too—without constant care, processes, teams, and customer relationships inevitably grow chaotic.
How:
• Inevitable decline without maintenance: Businesses are like gardens; without continuous care—streamlining processes, retraining, or adapting to changes—they become overgrown and inefficient.
• Efficiency vs. disorder: Small startups may thrive like fresh saplings, but as they grow, entropy rises. Complexity increases, communication strains, and inefficiencies creep in, demanding constant pruning and attention.
Why it matters:
• Complacency leads to decay: Only those who “garden” with new energy, ideas, and processes stay competitive.
• Explains bureaucracy: The larger and more complex a company, the more it has to work to combat entropy.
• Investor insight: Look for companies actively fighting entropy—reinvesting in efficiency, leadership, and system improvements.
Entropy’s lesson? Without intentional effort, even the best systems drift into chaos.
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Munger’s bonus rule: don’t be stupid.
“It is remarkable the advantage that some people have gained by trying hard not to be stupid rather than trying hard to be smart.”
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Almost every day, I see reminders of this in both myself and others: that people who need love ask for it in the most unlovable ways
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“Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.” – C. Montgomery Burns
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I keep outsmarting myself by spending more time debating email replies with ChatGPT than just sending one myself.
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“The most expensive investing mistake in the world to make is to be a pessimist, and it’s a common one. I think that’s actually the most common mistake to make in life. It is true that we are in a lull right now, but it is absolutely, categorically false that — unless the world gets destroyed in a very short term — that we will not have a bigger technological wave then we’ve ever had before.”
-@sama, circa 2019
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The thing about slivers is they’re easy to get, but once they’re in, they’re a pain to pull out.
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Richard Feynman noticed something similar while teaching in Brazil: students could recite physics perfectly but couldn’t apply it to real-world problems or make discoveries. He argued that deep understanding—not memorization—drives innovation. Sounds a lot like AI: vast knowledge, few original connections.
Article about its: calteches.library.caltech.ed…
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Love the clarity of his thought. Sharp and to the point:
“If your only objective is to be popular, you’re going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.”
“If everything is very important, then nothing is important.”
“You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you’re afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn’t be there.”
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“The Power of Anti-Goals” by @awilkinson medium.com/@awilkinson/the-p…
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@jasonswebster Yea I tend to just follow people on here. But I couldn't resist when I saw Tim went down.
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Bad news, Guy. Your AeroPress aversion says it all. Bracing myself for your movie picks on @letterboxd.
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Love it! I’ll follow up shortly with a DM. I’m a fly on the wall at the event; come say hi if you see me.
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Speaking of mentionings, you should connect with @Kang_Simran_. I met her a few weeks ago and she’s building the competitor that needs to exist. The two of you could be a 1+1=5.
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When we say we avoid synergy, we mean we don’t force companies in the group to work together. In my experience, CEOs and teams prefer their own ideas over something pushed on them. You can make introductions and point out opportunities, but at the end of the day, you can’t make a horse drink the water you lead it to.
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Smart move. Everyone naturally avoids the weird hat guy, like Moses parting the waters you have guaranteed access to the bar.
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40+ months of nonstop onboarding sounds like hell. On the bright side, maybe this would lead you to creating an improved on-boarding process/tool.
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Thanks, Sam. I appreciate the thought, but I don’t think there’s a book in my future—I just don’t feel like I have all that much to say. As they say, ‘Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.’
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I have, in fact, three juggling balls with me! I fear my juggling skills have deteriorated since our last meeting, though.
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