Sometimes You have To Swim Upstream
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I do enjoy Twitter, but am very particular about who I follow. Usually 40 or less people max. I recently saw a retweet of Balaji Srinivasan and have been following him since.
I do enjoy Twitter, but am very particular about who I follow. Usually 40 or less people max. I recently saw a retweet of Balaji Srinivasan and have been following him since.
Balaji is an Angel investor and former CTO of Coinbase. This week he posted these photos of old articles in which publications like even the New York Times were skeptical about the business models of Google, Amazon and Facebook.
Today of course these companies are very successful commercially and no one would question your sanity for investing in them. But Balaji’s point is well made: Sometimes to get excellent returns you have to swim upstream.
He is touching on the general principle that if you do what everyone else is doing, you shouldn’t be surprised to get the same results everyone else is getting.
I’ve always known I’m not going to be satisfied with an average life. And that fuels small and big parts of my lifestyle.
One small example is sleep. I use blockout lining on my curtains which improves the quality of my sleep significantly. Now ask yourself, how many people in the world use blockout lining? Now ask yourself why YOU don’t use blockout lining.
You can read a bit more about this on fs.blog’s article called “The surprising power of the long game”.
https://lnkd.in/dK6Ka5g
Balaji is an Angel investor and former CTO of Coinbase. This week he posted these photos of old articles in which publications like even the New York Times were skeptical about the business models of Google, Amazon and Facebook.
Today of course these companies are very successful commercially and no one would question your sanity for investing in them. But Balaji’s point is well made: Sometimes to get excellent returns you have to swim upstream.
He is touching on the general principle that if you do what everyone else is doing, you shouldn’t be surprised to get the same results everyone else is getting.
I’ve always known I’m not going to be satisfied with an average life. And that fuels small and big parts of my lifestyle.
One small example is sleep. I use blockout lining on my curtains which improves the quality of my sleep significantly. Now ask yourself, how many people in the world use blockout lining? Now ask yourself why YOU don’t use blockout lining.
You can read a bit more about this on fs.blog’s article called “The surprising power of the long game”.
https://lnkd.in/dK6Ka5g