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Marc Andreessen (Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸) describes how Michael Ovitz and CAA took over Hollywood: "One of the practices was at every agency, they would have their staff meeting at 9AM. The staff meeting would go from 9AM to 10AM. Then at 10AM, they would start calling their clients. So...

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Marc Andreessen says Michael Ovitz crushed Hollywood with a 7am meeting and 20 Jaguars. When Ovitz founded Creative Artists Agency in 1975, the talent business was 90 years old. Every agency ran the same way. Staff meetings started at 9am. At 10am, agents called their own clients with the day's casting news. Ovitz did one thing differently. He moved CAA's staff meeting to 7am. By 8am, his agents were already on the phone. By 9am, the rest of Hollywood was sitting down for coffee. CAA had already called every other agency's clients. Andreessen's reconstruction of the call: You're Paul Newman. Your agent of 20 years calls at 11am about a role. "The guys at CAA called me about that three hours ago." Your agent: "They don't represent you." You: "Yeah, isn't it great?" Then there was the phalanx. Twenty agents would arrive at every premiere. Identical Armani suits. White shirts from Sulka in Beverly Hills. Twenty Jaguars in the parking lot, plates running CAA-1 through CAA-20. The 90-year-old agency model never recovered. Genius — or just ruthless? If you're new here, GeniusThinking is a gallery for the greatest minds in economics, psychology, and history. Follow along for more similar content. P.S. I made a free toolkit breaking down 100+ mental models used by history's greatest thinkers. 5,000+ downloads. 113 five-star reviews. Grab your free copy here: — Marc Andreessen ( Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 ), co-founder of a16z, on David Senra's ( David Senra ) podcast
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Marc Andreessen says Michael Ovitz crushed Hollywood with a 7am meeting and 20 Jaguars. When Ovitz founded Creative Artists Agency in 1975, the talent business was 90 years old. Every agency ran the same way. Staff meetings started at 9am. At 10am, agents called their own clients with the day's casting news. Ovitz did one thing differently. He moved CAA's staff meeting to 7am. By 8am, his agents were already on the phone. By 9am, the rest of Hollywood was sitting down for coffee. CAA had already called every other agency's clients. Andreessen's reconstruction of the call: You're Paul Newman. Your agent of 20 years calls at 11am about a role. "The guys at CAA called me about that three hours ago." Your agent: "They don't represent you." You: "Yeah, isn't it great?" Then there was the phalanx. Twenty agents would arrive at every premiere. Identical Armani suits. White shirts from Sulka in Beverly Hills. Twenty Jaguars in the parking lot, plates running CAA-1 through CAA-20. The 90-year-old agency model never recovered. Genius — or just ruthless? If you're new here, GeniusThinking is a gallery for the greatest minds in economics, psychology, and history. Follow along for more similar content. P.S. I made a free toolkit breaking down 100+ mental models used by history's greatest thinkers. 5,000+ downloads. 113 five-star reviews. Grab your free copy here: — Marc Andreessen ( Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 ), co-founder of a16z, on David Senra's ( David Senra ) podcast

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp on value creation and avoiding “parasitic software”: “We drive our whole business based on a set of beliefs that are: American superiority.” “If you believe your client is noble—like, I believe our US government clients are not only noble, but they're no more noble than I am.” “They're doing missions that will change world history for the better.” “If you know that the thing that's going to happen—downstream from that is you're going to resist building parasitic products.” “What you're supposed to be doing in software is—build something the client gets addicted to. Not the one they need.” “What very successful software companies do is say: they think they want X. We'll fake give them X, but we'll give them this thing that they can't get rid of.” “And then nothing else will work, but they'll just have to pay.”

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Marc Andreessen reveals the ultimate danger for entrepreneurs trying to lead like the greats. Before you try to run your startup by inserting yourself into every detail, you need to hear this reality check: "The thing you don't get is as follows, which is that... assumes you have somebody like Elon who can hold the entirety of every engineering topic and every business topic in their head all at the same time." "And so when you're sitting there with the 23-year-old engineer and you're working with them to redesign the database architecture or whatever, you actually are like qualified to do that. And that you're qualified to do that not just that one time, but EVERY time." It forces us to ask a tough question about the actual talent pool in tech right now: "This goes right back to the last topic we just talked about, which is like, OK, how many of those people exist who can possibly do that? And, you know, we know the answer is one." But here is where his perspective completely shifts... "I believe the answer is ten or a hundred or a thousand. I don't know if it's a million. I tend to think we have more of those people than we think we do."

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Journalist: The US and Russia have told you that the way to get a ceasefire by the summer is for you, Ukraine, to give up the 20% of Donetsk that you still have, those so-called 'fortress cities'. Isn't that a reasonable thing to do? They're both asking for it. ​Zelenskyy: I see this differently. I don't look at it simply as land. I see it as weakening our positions, abandoning hundreds of thousands of our people who live there. And I am sure that this withdrawal would devide our society

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Rich Roll on why waiting to "feel like it" is a trap: "You can't think your way into the mood that you seek or the state of mind that you aspire to inhabit. Action is the only thing that can trigger that change." Rich uses running as the perfect illustration of this principle. Imagine you wake up in the morning and you're supposed to do a run because you're training for a race. You don't feel like it. So what do most of us do? "We all resort to that state where we think, 'Well, I don't want to do it right now. I'll just wait until I feel like doing it and then I'll do it then.'" But here's the problem with that logic: "If you're waiting until you feel like doing something, chances are you're probably never going to get to it." The mood you're hoping will arrive on its own? It's not coming. Not without action first. "To take the action despite how you feel about it is the thing that catalyzes the state change." You don't run because you feel motivated. You feel motivated because you ran. He points to what every runner knows from experience: "When they finish the run, they're always glad that they did it. They don't generally regret it. And then they feel better." Notice the sequence. The good feeling comes after the action, not before it. The state change is the reward for showing up, not the prerequisite. And this isn't just about running. As Rich puts it: "That example is applicable to all areas of life." The workout you're avoiding. The conversation you're delaying. The project you're putting off until you're "in the right headspace." You're waiting for a feeling that only exists on the other side of doing the thing.

Kevin Tanaka

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Jordan Peterson: "If you can't fix your room, you can't fix your life" "Why should you even bother improving yourself? The answer is something like: so you don't suffer anymore stupidly than you have to. And maybe so others don't have to either. It's not some casual self-help doctrine. If you don't organize yourself properly, you'll pay for it. In a big way. And so will the people around you." Peterson continues: "You can say, 'Well, I don't care about that.' But that's actually not true, you do care about it. Because if you're in pain, you will care about it. It's very rare that you can find someone in excruciating pain who would say, 'Well, it would be no better if I was out of this.' Pain brings the idea that it would be better if it didn't exist along with it. It's incontrovertible." On how to start: "Look around for something that bothers you and see if you can fix it. You can do this in a room. Sit in your bedroom and think: 'If I wanted to spend ten minutes making this room better, what would I have to do?' You have to ask yourself that, it's a genuine question. And things will pop out. There's a stack of papers bugging you. Some rubbish behind your computer monitor you haven't attended to for six months. Cables tangled up." He explains why this matters: "If you were coming to see me for psychotherapy, the easiest thing would be to get you to organize your room. You think, is that psychotherapy? It depends on how you conceive the limits of your being. Start where you can start. If something announces itself as in need of repair that you could repair, fix it. Fix a hundred things like that, your life will be a lot different." On fixing what you repeat every day: "People tend to think of their daily routines as trivial. You get up, brush your teeth, have breakfast. Those probably constitute 50% of your life. People think, they're mundane, I don't need to pay attention to them. No, that's exactly wrong. The things you do every day are the most important things you do. Hands down. Just do the arithmetic." On staying within your competence: "Sometimes you don't know how to fix something. Imagine you're walking down the street and there's a guy who's alcoholic and schizophrenic and has been homeless for ten years. That's a problem. It would be good if you could fix it, but you haven't got a clue. You walk around that and go find something you could fix. Just because something announces itself as in need of repair doesn't mean it's you, right then and there, who should repair it. You have to have some humility. You don't walk up to a helicopter that isn't working and just start tinkering away." Peterson shares the key insight: "As soon as you give your mind a genuine aim, it'll reconfigure the world in keeping with that aim. That's actually how you see to begin with. You've all seen the video where you watch basketballs being tossed back and forth, and while you're doing that, a gorilla walks into the middle of the video and you don't see it. If you thought about that experiment for five years, that would be about the right amount of time to spend thinking about it." He explains what it reveals: "What it shows you is that you see what you aim at. If you can get one thing through your head, that would be a good one. You see what you aim at. One inference you might draw from that is: be careful what you aim at. What you aim at determines the way the world manifests itself to you. So if the world is manifesting itself in a very negative way, one thing to ask is: are you aiming at the right thing?"
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Jordan Peterson: "If you can't fix your room, you can't fix your life" "Why should you even bother improving yourself? The answer is something like: so you don't suffer anymore stupidly than you have to. And maybe so others don't have to either. It's not some casual self-help doctrine. If you don't organize yourself properly, you'll pay for it. In a big way. And so will the people around you." Peterson continues: "You can say, 'Well, I don't care about that.' But that's actually not true, you do care about it. Because if you're in pain, you will care about it. It's very rare that you can find someone in excruciating pain who would say, 'Well, it would be no better if I was out of this.' Pain brings the idea that it would be better if it didn't exist along with it. It's incontrovertible." On how to start: "Look around for something that bothers you and see if you can fix it. You can do this in a room. Sit in your bedroom and think: 'If I wanted to spend ten minutes making this room better, what would I have to do?' You have to ask yourself that, it's a genuine question. And things will pop out. There's a stack of papers bugging you. Some rubbish behind your computer monitor you haven't attended to for six months. Cables tangled up." He explains why this matters: "If you were coming to see me for psychotherapy, the easiest thing would be to get you to organize your room. You think, is that psychotherapy? It depends on how you conceive the limits of your being. Start where you can start. If something announces itself as in need of repair that you could repair, fix it. Fix a hundred things like that, your life will be a lot different." On fixing what you repeat every day: "People tend to think of their daily routines as trivial. You get up, brush your teeth, have breakfast. Those probably constitute 50% of your life. People think, they're mundane, I don't need to pay attention to them. No, that's exactly wrong. The things you do every day are the most important things you do. Hands down. Just do the arithmetic." On staying within your competence: "Sometimes you don't know how to fix something. Imagine you're walking down the street and there's a guy who's alcoholic and schizophrenic and has been homeless for ten years. That's a problem. It would be good if you could fix it, but you haven't got a clue. You walk around that and go find something you could fix. Just because something announces itself as in need of repair doesn't mean it's you, right then and there, who should repair it. You have to have some humility. You don't walk up to a helicopter that isn't working and just start tinkering away." Peterson shares the key insight: "As soon as you give your mind a genuine aim, it'll reconfigure the world in keeping with that aim. That's actually how you see to begin with. You've all seen the video where you watch basketballs being tossed back and forth, and while you're doing that, a gorilla walks into the middle of the video and you don't see it. If you thought about that experiment for five years, that would be about the right amount of time to spend thinking about it." He explains what it reveals: "What it shows you is that you see what you aim at. If you can get one thing through your head, that would be a good one. You see what you aim at. One inference you might draw from that is: be careful what you aim at. What you aim at determines the way the world manifests itself to you. So if the world is manifesting itself in a very negative way, one thing to ask is: are you aiming at the right thing?"

Jaynit

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‼️"Ritchie Torres Ain't Shit" (w/ Michael Blake)‼️ "I have talked about how in that [AIPAC] meeting when apartheid came up, they shut the meeting down. I have talked about how people have absolutely gone after us for calling it a genocide. And so, to the dynamic of: 'what would you do differently?' If it's here and now, of course, hindsight always twenty-twenty, would you go on a trip knowing what you know about AIPAC? No, of course not. I wouldn't. But I didn't know that then. And I just think that there is a scenario where I would hope that people would recognize that when you learn, you do better. That is what I've done."
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‼️"Ritchie Torres Ain't Shit" (w/ Michael Blake)‼️ "I have talked about how in that [AIPAC] meeting when apartheid came up, they shut the meeting down. I have talked about how people have absolutely gone after us for calling it a genocide. And so, to the dynamic of: 'what would you do differently?' If it's here and now, of course, hindsight always twenty-twenty, would you go on a trip knowing what you know about AIPAC? No, of course not. I wouldn't. But I didn't know that then. And I just think that there is a scenario where I would hope that people would recognize that when you learn, you do better. That is what I've done."

Briahna Joy Gray

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