Validity and Authenticity By editor on February 20, 2018 — 1 min read It doesn’t have to be successful. I’m just myself. I can be authentic. All of this money that we’ve been lucky enough to accumulate, and make, and compound and all of this stuff, it could vanish tomorrow. Will you say everything that I’ve said is invalidated? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZn8MEsQwOg (19:25) More
Live Your Life By editor on February 20, 2018 — 4 mins read It’s funny, and this is going to sound flippant, but I don’t particularly care. Now, that’s taken me a long journey to get to a place where I can comfortably tell you that answer. But I don’t care. I don’t care what they think. I’m on a path. I have to do what I have... More
An Exceptional Learning Organism By editor on February 20, 2018 — 1 min read A lot of how we invest is in a process that we call, becoming an exceptional learning organism. Now that may sound gobbledygook-y, but let me just unpack it for a second. Today’s world is so incredibly dynamic. Everything is changing. And the rate of change is so rapid and it’s so multidimensional. To think... More
A Different Kind of Education By editor on February 20, 2018 — 1 min read For all of you who are going to get a lot out of school, there’s a lot of folks that you probably know who will not. And who will have benefited from a different kind of education. All we needed to do was give them enough self-respect, and respect, to say that’s okay and equivalent... More
Often Wrong, Never In Doubt By editor on February 20, 2018 — 1 min read I make a lot of mistakes, but to be honest with you, this may sound so sick, I don’t really think about them that much. I don’t have that great big thing that I regret. Shit happens. I get a lot of stuff wrong. Most of the time I’m wrong. “Often wrong, never in doubt.”... More
Betting the Farm By editor on February 20, 2018 — 1 min read I live by a very simple philosophy, and it’s not mine. I was flying home from Vegas with Vinod Khosla on his jet. VK says, “Chamath, look over here.” We’re flying into San Jose, and he says, “Look over this side.” It’s all this land. He says, “See all that land?” I’m like, “Yup.” And... More
Disappointment By editor on February 20, 2018 — 1 min read I grew up so frustrated chasing this ideal. It just doesn’t amount to much. Once you get into the veiled curtain — now I’m in this position, I get to fly around, meet anybody I want, and so many times, I’m so disappointed. Because the image of what I thought that person represented was just... More
Code and Confidence By editor on February 20, 2018 — 1 min read I would really encourage a couple of things. One is, we all need to know how to code. All of you people just demonstrate the fact that this is the lingua franca, this is it. Half of you can probably speak English. English doesn’t matter, it’s inefficient. But this is the lingua franca of the... More
Two Paradigms for Careers and Entrepreneurship By editor on February 20, 2018 — 3 mins read The problem with that hyper-mercenary culture is all of a sudden you’ve completely divorced yourself of any sort of passion and a reason why you’d want to work at a company. The end result of that is that you’ll not do as good of a job, and you won’t make as much money. When I... More
The Possibility of Winning By editor on February 20, 2018 — 1 min read I was a little overweight, people called me a Paki… I fucking dealt with that shit for 15 years. I meet these amazing women that talk about how they’ve felt, you know, maligned as they’ve tried to — my other partner is a Pakistani Muslim, what he’s gone through — and I fucking empathize with... More
