Nat Friedman
Investor and engineer; CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021, co-founder of Ximian and Xamarin, and funder of the Vesuvius Challenge to read the Herculaneum Papyri.
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Their wordsAs human beings it is our right (maybe our moral duty) to reshape the universe to our preferences Technology, which is really knowledge, enables this
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Their wordsYou should probably work on raising the ceiling, not the floor Enthusiasm matters! It's much easier to work on things that are exciting to you
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Their wordsIt's important to do things fast You learn more per unit time because you make contact with reality more frequently Going fast makes you focus on what's important; there's no time for bullshit
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Their wordsThe efficient market hypothesis is a lie At best it is a very lossy heuristic The best things in life occur where EMH is wrong
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Their wordsWe know less than we think The replication crisis is not an aberration Many of the things we believe are wrong We are often not even asking the right questions
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Their wordsThe cultural prohibition on micromanagement is harmful Great individuals should be fully empowered to exercise their judgment
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Their wordsSmaller teams are better Faster decisions, fewer meetings, more fun No need to chop up work for political reasons
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Their wordsLarge-scale engineering projects are more soluble in IQ than they appear Many tech companies are 2-10x overstaffed
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Their wordsWhere do you get your dopamine? The answer is predictive of your behavior Better to get your dopamine from improving your ideas than from having them validated