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​How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You Are Going: 4 Lessons from Ben Horowitz (Part Two) | Beginner’s Mind with Christian Soschner​

Is your company at war or at peace right now?

  • Peace = you have a large advantage over your competition and your market is growing
  • War = you are fighting an existential threat from competition, macroeconomics, market changes, supply chain, etc

Wartime and peacetime require radically different management styles

  • Peace = leaders should XXXX the current opportunity
  • War = leaders must narrow focus and XXXX at all costs
  • “Run the wrong XXXX for the moment you are in and you lose a company that had every reason to survive”
  • “I was a peacetime CEO for three days and a wartime CEO for XXXX”

Hire people far more competent at their jobs than XXXX would be at their jobs

  • “The skill is judgment about people… Delegate the answer, keep the judgment about who XXXX.”
  • Example: Elon Musk is a great CEO because he has XXXX to quickly evaluate and approve the claims of his employees and the people he hires

If it’s easy for any individual contributor to XXXX, you’ve made a good hire

  • It means you’ve decided that their XXXX and that their decisions will be in alignment with the company’s vision
  • This is usually where CEOs fail to XXXX​

When hiring an executive, screen for devastating XXXX in the interview process:

  • What will you do in your first month on the job? Beware of answers that overemphasize XXXX and look for answers that include XXXX they plan to bring to the new role.
  • How will your new job differ from your current job? Beware of answers that suggest they believe all of their current experience will XXXX​
  • Why do you want to join a small company? Beware of answers that put XXXX as the leading motivator and look for answers that emphasize creation over ownership.
  • In your last big win, were you driving or were you in the vehicle? Obviously, small companies need XXXX​

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​Essentials: Genes & the Inheritance of Memories Across Generations | Dr. Oded Rechavi​

Your parents can pass on eye colour, but can they pass on something they learned, experienced or went through?

  • The obvious answer is no
    • If your dad studies architecture, you do not come out knowing architecture
    • If your mum gets strong in the gym, you do not inherit her muscle

DNA: genetic instructions contained in all of our cells; the entire set is called the genome

  • We have the same genome and XXXX in every cell in our body

RNA: instructions to make one particular XXXX based on the entire set of possibilities

  • There are many types of RNA, for example, messenger RNA contains the information for XXXX​

Helpful IKEA analogy for understanding DNA and RNA: the catalog is the XXXX; the specific instructions for specific pieces of furniture are XXXX; the furniture pieces are the proteins made from RNA using messenger RNA

Examples of hardship leading to adaptive traits

  • If you stress male mice, the next generation shows XXXX anxiety maybe because the stress threshold increased
  • Nicotine exposure in mice XXXX the tolerance of drugs (not just nicotine) in next generation
  • ​XXXX changes body weight and glucose tolerance of next generation

Challenges in understanding heritability of memory:

  • We don’t know the mechanism that may translate between the language of the brain and the language of inheritance
  • The wiring of the brain and particular neuronal circuits is XXXX in offspring
  • Some specific memories could XXXX after learning​
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​The Mind of Napoleon | Founders Podcast with David Senra (#432)​

Know yourself

  • If you don’t know the legacy you’re working towards, everything you do is done in vain
  • Great men must be successful, and success requires a target

Live to be remembered

  • Napoleon believed all men should have “a firm resolve to perish gloriously”
  • Napoleon believed death in combat was an XXXX “way out of an often contemptible world”
  • Napoleon believed every suicide was a XXXX​
  • Napoleon believed a man without a mission was “the most XXXX of all”

History only remembers XXXX men

  • “If you lived and died without XXXX, that is to not have lived at all”
  • “Everything on Earth is soon forgotten except the XXXX we leave imprinted on history”
  • “Men of genius are XXXX destined to be consumed in lighting their century”

The strong are good, and the weak are XXXX​

  • Napoleon believed most men are XXXX​
  • Napoleon believed the common man was more easily XXXX than persuaded with good ideas
  • Napoleon sacrificed comfort, self-interest, and happiness in pursuit of XXXX​

“The greatest improvisation of the human mind is that which gives existence to the XXXX”

  • Napoleon had an artist’s temperament
  • Which means to have a “XXXX with the disorderly nature of the world”
  • This is why Napoleon attempted to create XXXX​

Don’t have ambition, be XXXX​