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“Tom and Dan were the perfect bosses in this regard. They would talk about valuing ability more than experience, and they believed in putting people in roles that required more of them than they knew they had in them. It wasn’t that experience wasn’t important, but they “bet on brains,â€� as they put it, and trusted that things would work out if they put talented people in positions where they could grow, even if they were in unfamiliar territory.”
― The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
― The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
“The Law of Accelerating Returns,â€� Ray Kurzweil did the math and found that we’re going to experience twenty thousand years of technological change over the next one hundred years. Essentially, we’re going from the birth of agriculture to the birth of the internet twice in the next century. This means paradigm-shifting, game-changing, nothing-is-ever-the-same-again breakthroughs—such as affordable aerial ridesharing—will not be an occasional affair. They’ll be happening all the time. It”
― The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
― The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
“Persist, pivot, or concede. It’s up to us, our choice every time.”
― Greenlights
― Greenlights
“Don’t walk into a place like you wanna buy it, walk in like you own it.”
― Greenlights
― Greenlights
“The great paradox of the brain is that everything you know about the world is provided to you by an organ that has itself never seen that world. The brain exists in silence and darkness, like a dungeoned prisoner. It has no pain receptors, literally no feelings. It has never felt warm sunshine or a soft breeze. To your brain, the world is just a stream of electrical pulses, like taps of Morse code. And out of this bare and neutral information it creates for you—quite literally creates—a vibrant, three-dimensional, sensually engaging universe. Your brain is you. Everything else is just plumbing and scaffolding.”
― The Body: A Guide for Occupants
― The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Harsh’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Harsh’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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16 friends
80 books
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31 books
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