Thank you for this insightful write up Lenny. We invest in a few companies per week worldwide out of Pareto Holdings with a fairly unique set up that has no external capital. We love to participate alongside other investors, but are most excited to lead pre-seed rounds as we

When it doesn't work, try again

“Go do something great and your network will instantly emerge.” - @naval And as Carl Jung said, no matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.

“Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Look at those who fail, and you will find that most people fail not because they make mistakes, but because they are not fully committed, and the same goes for companies." - John D. Rockefeller's Letter to His Son.

Funny no one knows how to use the new iOS. So counterintuitive

The continuity of consciousness is an unqualified good. And death is an unqualified bad. These truths don't depend on the rise of a specific technology, including AI. But science & tech does give people more courage to hope for change. And thus acknowledge these truths.

Very few predictions in technology last 25 years. In 2000, only 2yrs into Google, Larry Page predicted the company's #1 priority a quarter century later. Watch this ~1min clip. "Artificial Intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. If we had the ultimate search

The top nine most valuable companies in the world were all formed on the West Coast of the United States. The top eight are tech companies.

Increasingly of the belief that intelligence is much, much less important to entrepreneurial success than force of will.

A Rare Cloud Formation Over Texas ☁️🇺🇸

Aging is a horrible disease, but we will be able to cure it soon.

View from a window at the Mill Valley Public Library.

Mike Tyson, at just 20 years old, was a UNIT

"The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us." - Founder of Nike, Phil Knight

Perhaps my fav theory

when i realised nobody knows what they're doing. it's idiots all the way up. you don't need permission, or qualifications, or expertise. you can literally just do things.

@brian_armstrong just move

One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people: Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing. Sounds simple on the

your lifespan expectancy is going to be 150

You must learn to proceed without certainty