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Patrick Collison

What Patrick Collison thinks about ambition

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Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.

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    Our readingReturns to effort do not visibly diminish; the binding constraint is how much hard work you actually enjoy, not where the curve flattens.

    Their wordsTo the extent that you enjoy working hard, do. Subject to that constraint, it's not clear that the returns to effort ever diminish substantially.

    ↗Advicepatrickcollison.com

    Interesting

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    Our readingGreat work is usually done far younger than its fame suggests: people were grey-haired when they became famous, not when they did the work.

    Their wordsPeople who did great things often did so at very surprisingly young ages. (They were grayhaired when they became famous... not when they did the work.)

    ↗Advicepatrickcollison.com

    Interesting