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How Can A Startup Founder Remain Mentally Healthy?

Founder's emotional state often reflects the state of their company. When your identity growth with your company and you encounter things that are completely outside of your control, those things affect you emotionally, making you irrational, and an irrational founder is not useful. It is healthy for you as a founder to disassociate yourself from the performance of your company, and from how the world treats it.

Recommended reading: Keep your identity small. by Paul Graham.


What Is The Current State Of The Free Press In Our Society ?

John believes it is currently under attack and that it is critical to our democracy to have a free press that is respected and able to operate on its own.


What Does Teaching Kids About Things Such As Equity In School Mean?

It is not teach them what to think, but it's about giving them the tools, strategies, languages, and opportunities to practice how to think. Kleinrock believes this approach to teaching should also be taught as if she were teaching kids how to read or do math.


Why Is It Important To Spend Time Each Day To Reflect On Yourself?

Because you could become brainwashed by an idea. It’s important to set a window time for yourself in order to recenter and align yourself from brainwashed ideas that you've encounter in your life, such as ads or ideas from others.


How Dominant Is Word Press Today?

Of all the 10 million top domains on the internet, 34% of them are running WordPress.


How Do You Win At Startups?

Ryan says you have to be ready to fight, in perpetuity. If you stay in the fight long enough, you will win, but no one knows how long that might take.


What Did Jim O'shaughnessy Learn Through Years Of Capital Management?

Jim realized that while he has an appetite for risk, that won't be true for many of his clients, and everyone should have a portfolio that optimized for their comfort level. Some people would prefer to make less money with less risk, and that is totally okay. What's most important is that your start investing as early as you can, making the most gain from the compounding interest.


Is There Evidence Of This Idea Starting?

Cindy posted a thread here: https://twitter.com/cindywu/status/1247199590119399425


What Does Every Potential Entrepreneur Need To Know About Startups?

No one gives you an assignment and tells you what the right thing to do, but the best thing you can do is to find a problem and to start solving it. Eventually you will hone in on something that works.


Can Fear Be Good For You?

YES. Fear is the compass, and there is always something valuable in the end.

Of course, if it's the matter of life and death, then it's a good idea to listen to your body and run away from the fear, but as far as our modern life is concerned, fear is good.


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