The Question I Ask Friends Before Committing to Anything
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"You can borrow, say, a question from Peter Thiel as a thought exercise first... If you had to accomplish your 10-year goals in the next 6 months, what would you do? ... The poin..."
"I would ask friends, and if they're truly kind, not just nice, you can ask them to do this, ask them to red team... If this company, if this relationship fails in 2 years, what ..."
Parkinson's Law
Productivity
"If you had to accomplish your 10-year goals in the next 6 months, what would you do? All right, so applying Parkinson's Law, creating a very tight deadline for yourself."
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