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Jeff Bezos reveals the simple phrase that saved him countless arguments running Amazon
"Disagree and commit is a really important principle that saves a lot of arguing"
"One of my direct reports would want to do something. I'd think it was a bad idea. We'd go back and forth and I'd often say, you know what, I don't think you're right, but I'm going to gamble with you"
"You're closer to the ground truth than I am. I've known you for 20 years, you have great judgment"
"At least then you've made a decision and I'm agreeing to commit to that decision. I'm not going to be second guessing it, sniping at it, or saying I told you so"
"I'm going to try actively to help make sure it works. That's a really important teammate behavior"
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من شرائط إجابة الدعاء أن يكون الداعي مفتقراً إلى الله محسناً الظن به؛ لأن من لم يكن كذلك فإن قلبه تعلق بغير الله؛ فلا يصدق عليه قوله(إذا دعان)، وقد قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: "ادْعُوا اللَّهَ وَأَنْتُمْ مُوقِنُونَ بِالإِجَابَةِ".
#متحف_القرآن_الكريم #يوم_الجمعة
#العشر_الأواخر_من_رمضان
Découvrir la vie du Prophète Muhammad ﷺ à travers le musée Khayr Al-Khalq à Médine, c'est puiser dans une source inépuisable de sagesse, de miséricorde et d'espoir. Une lumière qui traverse les siècles. ✨
#متحف_خير_الخلق #Médine
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🚨 Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis just dropped some hard truths about the real reason behind the 🇺🇸U.S.-🇨🇳China trade war. And no, it’s not about “fair trade” — it’s about survival. 🧵
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The U.S. doesn’t fear China because of “cheap labor” or “IP theft.”
What it truly fears is China’s capacity to undermine the U.S.-led global financial order — the very system that allows America to print dollars and buy the world.
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Wall Street’s aging financial architecture is losing its grip.
It can’t control crypto flows.
It can’t keep up with new financial ecosystems.
China — with its digital yuan, vast industrial base, and rising global influence — is the first real threat to this system.
3/
Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” were never about balancing trade.
They were a desperate attempt to slow down China’s rise and protect the dollar system from collapse.
Because if China succeeds, the U.S. loses its magic weapon: monetary dominance.
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Today, Trump is laser-focused on America’s financial core:
• The Treasury bond market (America’s lifeline)
• The stock market (America’s wallet)
Both are fragile. And any external pressure could trigger a chain reaction.
5/
The U.S. is now panicking over who’s selling off U.S. Treasuries.
China? Japan? Others?
Trump reportedly wants to punish any surplus country that dumps Treasuries — with tariffs, of course.
This is not about trade. It’s about a dying empire trying to stop the bleeding.
6/
In short, America is no longer confident in its own financial fortress.
And China is no longer playing by the old rules.
This isn’t just a trade war — it’s a war for the future of global finance.
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“Go for the pain of discipline, it weighs ounces. The pain of regret weighs tons.”
— Jim Rohn
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.@naval: If you’re ending up in Forbes 30 under 30 or on the cover of magazines, that’s not conducive to being a good founder.
All the value comes from a few hundred genuine, brilliant tinkerers who are there for the love of the game. They’re there for the love of the craft. They’re there because they’re creating something that they want to see exist.
I genuinely believe @elonmusk when he says he wants to die on Mars.
And so these kinds of people—Ilya Sutskever, the genius behind OpenAI, and Greg Brockman and others, obviously, and Sam Altman—these are people who have been working at the edge of their knowledge to try to figure out something new for decades. They are not there to be famous. Fame is a byproduct.
And honestly, anyone who’s on this stage, like me, talking about this—you shouldn’t trust 100%. We’re not the real deal. The real deal, the real power, the real knowledge, the real wealth, the real creativity derives from a small number of modern, you could call them scientist inventors—the new Thomas Edisons, the Henry Fords, the Nikola Teslas.
Interviewer: And who are they?
@naval: Who are the new ones? They’re people you’ve never heard of. They’re that geeky kid standing in the corner at the AI hackathon who’s shipping something that you can barely even understand or describe. You can find a lot of them on Twitter, but good luck sorting out the wheat from the chaff.
By the time they’re known and they’re famous, then maybe, like Elon, they still have ambition and they still keep driving. But they’re not the true builders underneath.
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In 2001, Warren Buffett gave a talk at the University of Georgia.
He asked them the most Warren Buffett question ever:
• If you could invest in a friend and get 10% of their income for life -- who would you pick?
Once the students answered the question, he then asked this:
• Why would you invest in that person?
• What character traits do they have?
Now they have a list of character traits to adopt.
Shortly after this, Buffett asked:
If you could short a friend's earnings, who would you pick and why?
Now you have a list of character traits to avoid.
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1. Do not think this thought experiment is limited to money.
If you don't care about money -- you can use it for whatever currency you value instead.
E.g. Happiness coin
If you could get 10% of a friend's happiness, who would you invest in and why?
If you could short someone's happiness, who would you pick and why?
You can run the same thought experiment with Fitness coin, Friendship coin, Romance coin, etc`
2. This thought experiment is genius because it hacks a bug in life's video game:
Humans are terrible at self-awareness.
But we are great at spotting things in other people.
E.g. If your friend is in the wrong relationship, you can realize in 10 minutes what may take them 10 years.
Daniel Kahneman summarised his book on cognitive biases with the following:
“The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people’s mistakes than our own.” - Daniel Kahneman
3. Nuance - It has to be purely from merit.
Buffett says it can't be because someone will inherit a large sum from their parents.
It has to be based on their behavior.
E.g. If you want 10% of someone's fitness coin, it's not because of incredible genetics -- is because of the actions they take.
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This is such an extraordinary speech. I only ask of my followers to watch this. Then I leave you alone
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Jeff Bezos: What goes into a great company strategy?
I love this insight from Jeff Bezos, “You can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time.”
Bezos rallied the entire company around the idea that customers will always want low prices, fast delivery, and vast selection. And then executed relentlessly on being the absolute best in the world in those three areas.
There are lots of important things that go into a great company strategy, but I love this advice from Bezos because it’s super counterintuitive:
“I very frequently get the question:
“What’s going to change in the next 10 years?”
That’s a very interesting question.
I almost never get the question:
“What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?”
And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two.
You can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time. In our retail business, we know that customers want low prices, and I know that’s going to be true 10 years from now. They want fast delivery; they want a vast selection. It’s impossible to imagine a future 10 years from now when a customer comes up and says, “Jeff I love Amazon, I just wish the prices were a little higher.” Or, “I love Amazon, I just wish you’d deliver a little slower.” Impossible.
So we know the energy we put into these things today will still be paying off dividends for our customers 10 years from now. When you have something that you know is true, even over the long term, you can afford to put a lot of energy into it.”
Follow @startuparchive_ for more tactical startup advice!
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Peter Thiel on the biggest lesson he learned in 10+ years of venture capital
In the clip below, Thiel explains how his biggest miss as a VC (not doing Facebook’s full Series B) led to a key insight:
“Once something works, people often underestimate it. And when things aren’t working, they underestimate how much trouble they’re in.”
When he backtested Founders Fund’s portfolio, he found that every time a company had a big up-round led by a smart investor, it was always a good idea to do your pro rata. And it was almost always a bad idea in a down- or flat-round.
In fact, the steeper the up-round, the cheaper it was.
His biggest miss of the last decade was not doing the full Series B at Facebook. It was a 12x up-round in eight months.
“It was the steepest up-round in that amount of time in any company we’ve been involved in. And in retrospect, that was perhaps also the cheapest… And I think one of the reasons it was so underpriced was that… even the people on the inside often underestimate how much things have changed… You have these subtle but very important points where somehow the leverage and dynamics shift very powerfully and they tend to get very underestimated.”
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🇫🇷🇮🇱📺 David Antonelli, le président de l'association #CorseIsraël, a déclaré lundi sur I24News : « Je me fiche éperdument des 2 millions de Gazaouis. Ce qui m’importe, c’est la vengeance des 1300 israéliens ».
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That time a group of people doing CrossFit ran passed a restaurant
Dozens of diners thought they were escaping from something and abandoned their tables to run off too. This happened in Brazil
