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Views from my late twenties living in New York City.
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Her standard reply would always make me laugh: "The graveyards are full of busy people, honey."
-Kara Swisher's Grandmother
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From Contemporist - A home filled with rustic Italian charm was the request
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Mexican Sweet Corn Cake
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3 medium husked ears fresh corn, preferably yellow
36 grams of fine yellow cornmeal
1/4 cup of whole milk yogurt
1 can of sweetened condensed milk (14 oz)
Four eggs
1/2 cup of neutral oil
1 1/4 cup of flour plus 2 Tablespoons
2 tablespoons of corn starch
2 teaspoons of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of salt
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Cut 2-3 ears of corn off the cob.
Combine corn, whole milk yogurt, condensed milk in the blender for 15 seconds. Let sit for ten minutes.
Add two whole eggs and two yolks, neutral oil, and blend again for five to ten seconds.
Pour out the wet ingredients in a bowl and add dry ingredients slowly.
Bake in the oven for 35-40 minutes.
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From a Twitter Thread: What are things we accept that are actually absurd once you think more deeply about it?
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As Victor Frankl reminds us, this is our core freedom. To decide how to face the day.
-Seth Godin
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Notes from a Fireside Chat with Jamie Dimon
Hard & smart work — you need to be efficient
Lead with vulnerability and humility -- "heart, humanity, and curiosity”
Anecdote about outsourcing security. J.P. Morgan is not going to make money off the backs of our security guards
Ask yourself weekly -- "What am I avoiding?"
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Notes from a Fireside Chat for Young Leaders
Ben - when new to a role — ask the question, shame on you if you don’t
Ben - ability to be effective is a result of your relationships
Ben - have a point of view after six months
Maribeth - humility about what you know & don’t know
Ben - Leadership should never flow from your title — it should flow from the quality of your ideas, questions, etc.
Umar - “let’s do the right thing for the firm”
Umar - “I like people who are a bit of a pain”
Ben - “people can smell bullshit”
Umar - “pick your manager before your role”
Ben - you will have lots of options. Write three to five things your next role must have / must not have. No other rules
Umar - “optimize locally instead of globally”
Umar - “more curiosity”
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End the Innovation Obsession
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/opinion/sunday/end-the-innovation-obsession.html
Great article on how, too often, we’re focused on innovation for the wrong reasons.
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I believe that working for something larger than yourself is the greatest thing a human can do. A family, a cause, a company, a country—these things give shape and purpose to an otherwise mechanical and brief human existence. The downside about things that are larger than ourselves, of course, is that we who have the privilege of serving them ourselves are fungible. It is the fundamental definition. You can’t have the grace of the one without the other.
Jonathan Bush
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Two Great Articles on Amazon
Amazon has been an unbelievable force in disruption and has had a huge role in changing consumer behavior and expectation. Here are two recent articles I’ve read on them.
The Inner Bezos - Wired: a 1999 article looking at Jeff Bezos’ life. It has some predictions that have come scary-close-to-true.
Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea - NYTimes: A Yale Law School student takes on Amazon (and other big tech) with new thinking about antitrust.
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