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July 10, 2019 - Existential dread, screen time, drugs and venture capital.

Thank you for subscribing to Smash Notes podcast. This week's episode is one of the best to date. Here is what's included. Happiness: Sahil Lavingia is the founder of Gumroad, a company that helps creatives make money from their passion. Sahil has gone from being the second employee at Pinterest, to being featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, to living in a…

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  1. What Does Sahil Lavingia Think About the Purpose of Life

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    The way we are living now is not much different than we have been living for thousands of years. We might think we are special, and each one of us is so individually different, but on a grand scheme of things, that's simply not true.

    If you choose to work on something, make sure it's important to you, and if you choose to work so hard you might die, do be sure it's worth dying for.

  2. Who Are the Investors Specifically Investing in Female Entrepreneurs

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    Jonathan Sposato from Seattle is one of the good guys who made a decision to invest only in women entrepreneurs because unlikely the while guys, women are getting a fraction of attention. Even so, no good deed is left unpunished, and Jonathan is getting flame for his choices.

  3. How Does Josh Wolfe of Lux Capital Say Investors Get the Best Deals?

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    A Smash Notes episode plays a Knowledge Project conversation between Shane Parrish and Josh Wolfe, co-founder of Lux Capital. Wolfe says the edge is to see what everyone else is looking at, then hunt the white space they ignore. Venture is an inefficient market, he says, because there is no known list of companies. Two people can decide to start one tomorrow and nobody else knows. He looks for scientists, or founders teamed with scientists, who are inventing the future, and he tries to back them before anyone else does. Lux wants to find what nobody has discovered yet, and it wants the crowd to agree later, not now.

  4. How Much Screen Time Does @DHH Give to His Kids

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    According to DHH, his kids can have as much screen time as they want because scarcity only builds desire, and once he's let kids watch all the TV and to play all the video games, they got bored and found other activities. The key here is to have other activities available so that once kids are ready, they do have something more interesting to do than just play games or to watch TV.

  5. Can Cigarettes Give You Cancer

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    Yes. Cigarettes cause cancer is a pretty undisputed fact, and yet many people might not realize it's not just the lung cancer. Chemicals from smoking cigarettes don't discriminate and destroy your body all over: from skin, to internal organs, to your reproductive system.

  6. How Much Coffee Is Too Much

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    20 cups of coffee can kill you, but it's very unlikely that you can consume so much coffee at once. Turns out though, caffeine comes in pure powder form. A tablespoon is enough to kill you.

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