Nate
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I train founders to grow FASTER and I train athletes to run FASTER. Seeker of ☯️
San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2008
This is brilliant
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The secret to investing is to invest in unstoppable people building inevitable things.
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If you cook a lot of ground beef, let me bless you 1. Turn your pan all the way up and flatten your beef like a big burger 2. Let it sear like a steak 3. Break up as normal This creates a Malliard reaction which gives a 10x improved taste I crave this daily
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It’s crazy that doing nothing or just being without stimulation is so rare Somehow I was wise enough in the early days of smartphones to not use headphones and I still don’t 10/10 would recommend non doing
A hill I'm willing to die on: Walking in silence is more productive than walking with a podcast or audiobook on 2x speed.
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By the year 1910 - what percentage of USA households were electrified? don't look, answer below
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seeking happiness is making you miserable. either one of three things happens 1) you get what you want. you feel temporarily at peace, but then you continue desiring something else. 2) you don't get what you want and you're miserable 3) you continue chasing it, and are
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⚡️This email is one of the most quietly revealing artifacts of the entire post-2008 era. Peter Thiel isn’t predicting socialism here. He’s diagnosing the terminal logic of late capitalism: when ownership becomes inaccessible, belief in the system dissolves. He’s mapping
Here is Peter Thiel’s email to Zuck and Andreessen in Jan-2020 predicting socialism. Tl;dr too much student debt and lack of affordable housing keeps young people with negative capital for too long. And without a stake in the capitalist system, they will turn against it.
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This one is my favorite: "People download apps to solve core human needs (1) finding love, (2) making or saving money, and (3) play. People rarely take time out of their day for anything else."
After 10 years of building consumer social apps, I've decided to start exploring new areas. Building these products is an unforgiving grind—but I learned a lot along the way. For those embarking on this path, here's everything you need to know: TIME FOR A THREAD 👇
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TREAT FRUITS AS FLAVORS NOT FOOD. Eat them to enhance a meal, not as a meal. Low-carb recs: SWEET: 🍓 raspberries, blackberries, strawberries SOUR:🍋 lemons, limes, pickles, baobab SAVORY: 🍅 tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers FATTY: 🥑 avocados, coconuts, olives Others?
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