Alex Taghavian
@ATaghavian
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Partner @CapImpact | Amateur chef, loves Sacramento, diehard @Czarface_eso fan
Sacramento, CA
Joined February 2014
Democrats Confused Why Venezuelans Cheering Downfall Of Nice, Warm Collectivism https://t.co/YZiARAmnXz
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So legit. @AJA_Cortes @BioavailableNd
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The single best advice I ever got on conversation is “ask questions the other person will enjoy answering” which sounds insultingly obvious, but almost nobody does it, and it instantly makes conversations vastly more fun.
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5 years old - Dad knows everything! 7 years old - Dad knows. 10 years old - Maybe Dad doesn’t know?! 12 years old - Dad doesn’t know. 14 years old - Dad's gone crazy! 16 years old - Can’t take Dad seriously. 18 years old - What does dad know?! 22 years old - Dad's
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Ate at a Persian restaurant and it was certified anabolic🔥
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A tip for parents: Don't play the college prestige game. For 99.9%, it doesn't matter if they go to an Ivy or a state school. What matters more is have they cultivated some degree of resilience, work ethic, intrinsic drive, etc. That doesn't come from an elite school...
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This may blow your mind. You've been using your leaf rake wrong your whole life. https://t.co/2h5WGHrQ2x
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The universe does not offer financing. This is hard to accept because modern life trains us to expect the opposite. We are addicted to “Buy Now, Pay Later.” You live in the house before you pay off the mortgage. You get the degree before you pay off the loan. You eat the meal
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There's a place for us Somewhere a place for us Peace and quiet and open air Wait for us somewhere There's a time for us Someday a time for us Time together a time to spare Time to learn and time to care
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Different people are wired differently, but I basically agree. Salesforce and Oracle were indeed built by money-motivated men. But Apple and Twitter were art projects. SpaceX and Tesla were engineering feats. And Bitcoin and Zcash are ideological campaigns. So: money is a
Do not start a company if you're primarily driven by: - Making money - Getting famous - Doing better than others - Calling yourself CEO/founder Only do it if you're crazy enough to do whatever it takes to solve a problem you deeply care about
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November is for gelatinous soups, beeswax candles, Frank Sinatra vinyls, hot cacao, conversations over oysters, cozy natural fibre sweaters, falling in love and steamy magnesium baths.
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A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. https://t.co/U1lwviEY4D
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The best are always learning. Read like crazy. Think alone. Keep a journal. Write stuff down the moment you see it. Review regularly. Memorize the big ideas to fluency. Attack your best ideas. And never get high on your own supply. You don't have to be gifted. You
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In the United States, there is a traffic fatality roughly every 79 million miles. Tesla FSD has now traveled 6.4 billion miles. Assuming it was no more or less safe than driving manually, you would expect there to be 81 fatalities with FSD on. As a matter of fact, with 14
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