So I can’t tell exactly when it occurred to me to write an article that never ends.
But I have come across the best of information on the internet that have greatly influenced my life and beliefs. Some of these teach me how to think about my career, how to be successful, how to be rich, different types of luck, how to sell, why be an entrepreneur, network effects, and lots more.
These I wish everyone around me would know. Of course you can sift through only to the ones that speak to you right now.
Instead of interpreting these articles to you my way, and maybe losing the context and quality of the insights in the process, I have decided to preserve their essence by sharing direct links to them.
These in turn serve as an archive for me.
I don’t have much in this box, but if I give it to you, we can both have it and maybe each create our own version of art in the process.
These are the articles that never end. I hope you enjoy them.
1. Marc Andreessen’s Guide to Career Planning
The world is a malleable place if you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion. You will be surprised what happens.
Marc Andreessen is a successful businessman, software engineer, venture capitalist, and billionaire. His achievements as a founding partner of Andreessen-Horowitz poise him to deliver one of the best guides to modern career planning.
While the original article Marc wrote is no longer hosted online, you can read Casey Turner’s note HERE. Don’t plan your career; analyze opportunities by risk, return, and life-stage. Make yourself a pretty mix of skills until no one else has your combination. Gain insights like these and more in this note.
2. How to Be Successful – Sam Altman
As your career progresses, each unit of work you do should generate more and more results. There are many ways to get this leverage, such as capital, technology, brand, network effects, and managing people.
Sam Altman is the toast of the modern world. A freshly minted billionaire in 2024, Sam is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, who recorded early success in his career including being the president of Y-Combinator from 2014 – 2019 .
Speaking on How to be Successful in career, life, and business, Sam gave 13 perennial tips in this article here. These include how to compound yourself, the importance of self-belief, thinking independently, taking risks early, focus, boldness, willfulness, being good at sales, and other brilliant advice. Absorb it all HERE.
3. How to Get Rich – Naval Ravikant
Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you. Seek wealth; not money or status.
In 2018, Naval wrote a tweet that would create a chain of events in the personal finance industry. He seemed to put a roadmap anyone can follow towards wealth creation. It is like uniting parts of little truths you’ve known before, and Naval himself confirmed he jotted those notes over years of learning and observation.
He later expounded this into a blog post titled, How to Get Rich (without getting lucky). If you come to the world 1,000 times, you can be wealthy in 999 of them if you follow the lessons in this guide.
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