Ben Casnocha
@bencasnocha
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Entrepreneur, Investor @VillageGlobal, Co-Author of The Startup of You and The Alliance. https://t.co/7W5h75ZB7H
Bay Area, CA
Joined December 2006
Henry Miller on Big Sur: “Paradise or no paradise, I have the very definite impression that the people of this vicinity are striving to live up to the grandeur and nobility which is such an integral part of the setting. They behave as if it were a privilege to live here, as if it.
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RT @TomScibelli: I respect the hell out of this billboard. No jokes. Nobody using the product. Doesn’t even make sense really. Just the nam….
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I did not know that "I Took a Pill in Ibiza" -- the original, not the club mixed version -- was such a heartfelt and vulnerable song.
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Epic team. Epic mission.
Today, we're thrilled to announce our $125M Series C funding round at a $1.5B valuation, led by Meritech Capital, marking our third successful raise in just 12 months!. fal’s Generative Media Cloud now powers tens of thousands of applications, supporting over two million
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RT @bencasnocha: The Buddha said the untrained mind is worse for you than your worst enemy. A trained mind is more helpful than your best a….
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We make this point in The Startup of You -- injecting volatility into your day to day career (in micro or macro ways) builds resilience over time. Controlled burns make a forest more resilient to devastating, unexpected forest fires.
You need to give your girl the ick a little sometimes in order to cultivate an antifragile relationship. A lack of regular predictable ick is setting yourself for more destabilizing ick shock.
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RT @sivori: Cry your heart out. Don’t judge your own responses. Remember that your dearly departed would not want you to hurt but to move o….
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RT @neerajadeshp: The problem I've noticed in these circles is that what these women viscerally want (a masculine man who makes them feel l….
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I’ve learned from success and I’ve learned from failure. *Other* variables tend to determine the intensity of the learning — e.g. how much personal agency did I have in the thing that generated the lesson?.
I was the VP of Product at Flexport when we grew from $1M to $500M in revenue. And I was the CEO of Placement where we grew from $0 to $1M to $0. And, to be honest, I learned radically more from my successes than my mistakes. Winning teaches you a *lot* more than losing.
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RT @eshear: much suffering is caused by people turning a "reduce variance" knob without realizing it controls the positive variance too.
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RT @Ben_Reinhardt: The corollary is that writing should be about things you want to genuinely think through -- not just things you want to….
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RT @bogwitchbooks: Losing it over this therapy horse that vigorously plays the piano to wake kids up from anesthesia
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AI is getting so good at writing. This raises the importance of oral communication and IRL interpersonal skills -- the last bastion of the singularly human. What happens to autistic people, as their strength/weakness natural mix is particularly ill-suited for this new world?.
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RT @max_spero_: This is an important event: the first time AI-induced psychosis has affected a well-respected and high achieving individual….
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RT @rebeca6169: "The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will….
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Eddy Cue waving around a print out of his iCloud calendar at Sun Valley. Paper remains undefeated. (Via @ChanceHMiller)
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Awareness practice is a continuous quest to separate out *you* from the experience you’re having — to look upon the present from some remove.
To be aware is to be awake. Unaware means asleep. You are aware anyhow; you need not try to be. What you need is to be aware of being aware. Be aware deliberately and consciously; broaden and deepen the field of awareness. Nisargadatta, I Am That, Chapter 48.
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RT @heyjchu: A Stanford Sophomore floored me with this comment today:. It's easier as a Stanford student to get into YC than get an interns….
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Emoji reacting your own message after sending — instead of including the emoji in the original message — adds to the vibe. a playful objectivity, light bemusement, flirtatious detachment.
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