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Michael Ovitz built the most powerful agency in Hollywood by making learning from history mandatory. He lived below Martin Scorsese, who screened films every night. Ovitz brought takeout and questions and absorbed knowledge about every director. Then he made his agents do the same thing. He required every CAA... agent to watch every Academy Award winner—Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Writer—from the first ceremony forward. While competitors chased meetings, CAA agents showed up fluent in 80 years of cinema. That pattern recognition let them see what others couldn't: packages beat single clients. IP beats talent. Ownership beats commissions. Ovitz called it "past is prologue." "If you know history, you pretty much can predict the future." David Ogilvy called it a "teaching hospital." Same idea: Make excellence institutional.show more

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THEY ASKED KIMI ABOUT THE NOTE LEWIS LEFT FOR HIM AND HIS RESPONSE IS SO BEAUTIFUL 🥺🥹 "I think it tells a lot on how Lewis is as a person. I think you can see a lot, I could see a lot of the human side of Lewis, not only the driver and reading the message, it fulfilled my heart to receive such a message from such a figure in the sport." "He has done so much and he's still right there giving his best and it's one of the best in history and, you know, to receive such a message, of course, it's amazing. Its also, in the message it contains also some advices and I use it as a motivation as well to go out there and do my best because, yeah, it doesn't happen every day." Q: Will you keep the letter? Kimi: Yeah, it's actually on the wall, I'll keep it there and, yeah, because I think the message is so nice that, you know, I just want to leave it there because every day I enter in the room, every time I enter in the room I can see the message and it's also - it's also a really good reminder.

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Let me explain Trump through the only two prisms you actually need. 👇🏼 Attention and money from attention. Run every single thing he has ever done through those two filters and it all makes perfect sense. Home Alone. The View. Larry King. Fox News. Every media spot he could land in perpetuity — he took it. He wanted presence. He needed presence. But here’s the one that tells you everything you need to know. Trump used to call journalists and PR people pretending to be his own publicist. Made up a name. Fake third party. Called on behalf of himself to pitch interviews with himself. He manufactured his own media coverage by becoming a fictional character in his own story. That’s not a PR strategy. That’s a compulsion. And that same compulsion, the need for your eyeballs, the need to monetize your eyeballs, is what’s been running the most powerful office in the world. Not policy. Not ideology. Not vision. Attention and money from attention.

Let me explain Trump through the only two prisms you actually need. 👇🏼 Attention and money from attention. Run every single thing he has ever done through those two filters and it all makes perfect sense. Home Alone. The View. Larry King. Fox News. Every media spot he could land in perpetuity — he took it. He wanted presence. He needed presence. But here’s the one that tells you everything you need to know. Trump used to call journalists and PR people pretending to be his own publicist. Made up a name. Fake third party. Called on behalf of himself to pitch interviews with himself. He manufactured his own media coverage by becoming a fictional character in his own story. That’s not a PR strategy. That’s a compulsion. And that same compulsion, the need for your eyeballs, the need to monetize your eyeballs, is what’s been running the most powerful office in the world. Not policy. Not ideology. Not vision. Attention and money from attention.

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Thomas Peterffy never read a single investment book - just borrowed $100 from his father and built the world's best $110 billion brokerage firm he finally opened up about the one principle behind every trade he's ever made "every two cents the stock goes down, I buy a thousand shares - then sell as it climbs - I prefer trading profits to position profits" he landed in New York at 21 with no English - "learning to code was easier than learning the language" - so he let computers do what he couldn't, and built the first machine that traded on its own Goldman Sachs came knocking with a $900 million offer - he turned it down -then said "$3 billion" just to end the conversation - today his firm is worth over $110 billion on the AI bubble: "we're not there yet - but we will be AI works where behavior can be predicted - molecules, atoms - general intelligence is still far away" bookmark & watch ↓

Thomas Peterffy never read a single investment book - just borrowed $100 from his father and built the world's best $110 billion brokerage firm he finally opened up about the one principle behind every trade he's ever made "every two cents the stock goes down, I buy a thousand shares - then sell as it climbs - I prefer trading profits to position profits" he landed in New York at 21 with no English - "learning to code was easier than learning the language" - so he let computers do what he couldn't, and built the first machine that traded on its own Goldman Sachs came knocking with a $900 million offer - he turned it down -then said "$3 billion" just to end the conversation - today his firm is worth over $110 billion on the AI bubble: "we're not there yet - but we will be AI works where behavior can be predicted - molecules, atoms - general intelligence is still far away" bookmark & watch ↓

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89,238 görüntüleme • 7 gün önce

Marc Andreessen on Elon Musk: “I think probably the single biggest question in all of business right now is: why don't more CEOs operate the way that he does?” "The top-line thing is just this incredible devotion from the leader of the company to fully, deeply understand what the company does, and to be completely knowledgeable about every aspect of it." "To be in the trenches and talking directly to the people who do the work, deeply understanding the issues, and being the key, lead problem solver in the organization." "What Elon does is—he shows up every week at each of his companies, he identifies the biggest problem that the company's having that week, and he fixes it. He does that every week for 52 weeks in a row. And then each of his companies has solved the 52 biggest problems that year, in that year." "The side effect of it is—he attracts many of the best people in the world to work with him. Because if you work with Elon, the expectations are through the roof in terms of your level of performance." Source: Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on Chris Williamson

Marc Andreessen on Elon Musk: “I think probably the single biggest question in all of business right now is: why don't more CEOs operate the way that he does?” "The top-line thing is just this incredible devotion from the leader of the company to fully, deeply understand what the company does, and to be completely knowledgeable about every aspect of it." "To be in the trenches and talking directly to the people who do the work, deeply understanding the issues, and being the key, lead problem solver in the organization." "What Elon does is—he shows up every week at each of his companies, he identifies the biggest problem that the company's having that week, and he fixes it. He does that every week for 52 weeks in a row. And then each of his companies has solved the 52 biggest problems that year, in that year." "The side effect of it is—he attracts many of the best people in the world to work with him. Because if you work with Elon, the expectations are through the roof in terms of your level of performance." Source: Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on Chris Williamson

a16z

140,451 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce

Warren Buffett on the single best thing an investor could have done in 1942: At a recent shareholder meeting, Buffett explains that he normally goes straight into questions and answers. But this time he opened differently, because he felt the usual format was teaching the wrong lesson. As he puts it, "all the questions would naturally tend toward current events." So he went back to 1942, the year he bought his first stock, to make a point about everything that has happened since. "We've had 14 presidents, seven Republicans, seven Democrats. We've had world wars. We had 911. We had the Cuban missile crisis. We have all kinds of things." His lesson? None of it should have changed what you did with your money. "The best single thing you could have done on March 11th, 1942 when I bought my first stock was just buy an index fund and never look at a headline, never think about stocks anymore. Just like you would do if you bought a farm. You just buy the farm and let the tenant farmer run it for you." Then he gives the number. Buffett describes putting $10,000 into an index fund that reinvested dividends, and he pauses to let the audience guess what it would be worth. The answer: "it would come to $51 million now." The only belief required back then was simple: "The only thing you had to really believe in then is that America would win the war and that America would progress as it has ever since 1776. And that American business, if America moved forward, American business would move forward." Notice what he says you did NOT need: "You didn't have to worry about what stock to buy. You didn't have to worry what day to get in and out. You didn't know the Federal Reserve would exist."

Warren Buffett on the single best thing an investor could have done in 1942: At a recent shareholder meeting, Buffett explains that he normally goes straight into questions and answers. But this time he opened differently, because he felt the usual format was teaching the wrong lesson. As he puts it, "all the questions would naturally tend toward current events." So he went back to 1942, the year he bought his first stock, to make a point about everything that has happened since. "We've had 14 presidents, seven Republicans, seven Democrats. We've had world wars. We had 911. We had the Cuban missile crisis. We have all kinds of things." His lesson? None of it should have changed what you did with your money. "The best single thing you could have done on March 11th, 1942 when I bought my first stock was just buy an index fund and never look at a headline, never think about stocks anymore. Just like you would do if you bought a farm. You just buy the farm and let the tenant farmer run it for you." Then he gives the number. Buffett describes putting $10,000 into an index fund that reinvested dividends, and he pauses to let the audience guess what it would be worth. The answer: "it would come to $51 million now." The only belief required back then was simple: "The only thing you had to really believe in then is that America would win the war and that America would progress as it has ever since 1776. And that American business, if America moved forward, American business would move forward." Notice what he says you did NOT need: "You didn't have to worry about what stock to buy. You didn't have to worry what day to get in and out. You didn't know the Federal Reserve would exist."

Black Edge

16,436 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

In the Soviet Union, they wiped their butts with money. It sounds like a prosperous paradise, until you realize…OUCH! That pretty much sums up communism. Hopefully, New York will realize that before it’s too late. Here's the real history the corrupt university system teaching “socialism is neat” leaves out: The USSR’s state-run socialist system put every single independent paper company out of business. So, they had to use the exact same paper for both their money and toilet paper. They told their citizens it's the best! "You aren't suffering from a shortage; you're experiencing a luxury." It's not that past regimes "just didn't do it right." This happens EVERY TIME. And now, America is seeing a whole new generation marching for the exact same ideology that built the Gulags.

In the Soviet Union, they wiped their butts with money. It sounds like a prosperous paradise, until you realize…OUCH! That pretty much sums up communism. Hopefully, New York will realize that before it’s too late. Here's the real history the corrupt university system teaching “socialism is neat” leaves out: The USSR’s state-run socialist system put every single independent paper company out of business. So, they had to use the exact same paper for both their money and toilet paper. They told their citizens it's the best! "You aren't suffering from a shortage; you're experiencing a luxury." It's not that past regimes "just didn't do it right." This happens EVERY TIME. And now, America is seeing a whole new generation marching for the exact same ideology that built the Gulags.

Glenn Beck

57,014 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

Elon Musk is building something no platform in history has actually attempted. A system that judges ideas without knowing who wrote them. Musk: “It should be possible for somebody to post content as a new user with no followers, and if that content is excellent, it gets seen by a lot of people.” Every platform before this ran on a single hidden variable. Identity. Not quality. Not originality. Not depth. Identity. Who you were determined what got seen. The architecture didn’t surface the best thinking. It surfaced the most established thinker. It chose pedigree over precision. Every single time. Musk is the first person with the infrastructure, the capital, and the sheer indifference to consensus required to strip that variable out. Grok reads everything. Every post from every account. Zero followers or ten million. No weighting for legacy. No deference to tenure. It measures one thing. Intrinsic excellence. The printing press created publishers. Radio created networks. Television created anchors. Social media created influencers. Every technology of liberation produced a new gatekeeper within one generation. Musk is betting AI is the first tool that can’t be captured. An algorithm with no concept of identity has no incumbency to protect. It just reads. And it surfaces what’s best. If that works, it doesn’t just change a platform. It exposes something about every system that came before it. Every trending page, every algorithm, every feed that claimed to surface quality was never measuring quality. It was measuring proximity to power and calling it merit. We never had meritocracy. We had hierarchy with better marketing. Musk is building the first real one. And the question it forces isn’t whether you can compete. It’s whether your work was ever actually good, or you were just early. Everyone wants meritocracy. Almost nobody has ever lived in one.

Elon Musk is building something no platform in history has actually attempted. A system that judges ideas without knowing who wrote them. Musk: “It should be possible for somebody to post content as a new user with no followers, and if that content is excellent, it gets seen by a lot of people.” Every platform before this ran on a single hidden variable. Identity. Not quality. Not originality. Not depth. Identity. Who you were determined what got seen. The architecture didn’t surface the best thinking. It surfaced the most established thinker. It chose pedigree over precision. Every single time. Musk is the first person with the infrastructure, the capital, and the sheer indifference to consensus required to strip that variable out. Grok reads everything. Every post from every account. Zero followers or ten million. No weighting for legacy. No deference to tenure. It measures one thing. Intrinsic excellence. The printing press created publishers. Radio created networks. Television created anchors. Social media created influencers. Every technology of liberation produced a new gatekeeper within one generation. Musk is betting AI is the first tool that can’t be captured. An algorithm with no concept of identity has no incumbency to protect. It just reads. And it surfaces what’s best. If that works, it doesn’t just change a platform. It exposes something about every system that came before it. Every trending page, every algorithm, every feed that claimed to surface quality was never measuring quality. It was measuring proximity to power and calling it merit. We never had meritocracy. We had hierarchy with better marketing. Musk is building the first real one. And the question it forces isn’t whether you can compete. It’s whether your work was ever actually good, or you were just early. Everyone wants meritocracy. Almost nobody has ever lived in one.

Dustin

29,648 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

This eerie 10-minute sequence in "Cape Fear" (1991), where Robert De Niro's 'Max Cady' tricks Juliette Lewis' 'Danielle' into meeting with him at the high school is what convinced Martin Scorsese to do the movie. He considers it "the crux" of the entire film and said, “It was the scene that made me make the movie. I realized if I can pull off that scene, with the actors and the writer, it'd be great." De Niro explained that he wanted Max Cady to have the ability perform Charles Manson-like “mind trips” on his victims. So, he felt the necessity to have this scene. Lewis said, "When [the scene] was over, it was like I had to come down. I just went straight to [De Niro] and said, 'God, that was fun.'” The sequence became one of the film's most talked-about moments and helped Lewis nab an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. When Spielberg and De Niro were trying to convince Scorsese to direct the picture over dinner, he rejected it as he "didn't want to get involved in remakes. It's a really difficult thing to do, especially if [the original film] is a good picture.” To convince him somehow, Spielberg said to him, "Listen, if you don't like the script, you can rewrite it." Scorsese, who was suffering from fatigue after post-production work on "Goodfellas" (1990) jokingly said that he had forgotten about that part (Screenwriting) of the process. Martin Scorsese said high-energy chase sequences like this weren’t in his filmmaking wheelhouse, and he praised Spielberg for doing scenes like that “so beautifully,” while claiming his approach would have “become a cliche. I couldn't even bring myself to think about doing that sort of thing.” There wasn't any preparation for the scene. It was done in one take. About filming the scene, Scorsese said, "We froze and it was like magic." ("'Cape Fear' at 30: Why Martin Scorsese Needed Convincing to Direct Iconic Thriller (Flashback)", Joe Bergren, ET, 2021)

This eerie 10-minute sequence in "Cape Fear" (1991), where Robert De Niro's 'Max Cady' tricks Juliette Lewis' 'Danielle' into meeting with him at the high school is what convinced Martin Scorsese to do the movie. He considers it "the crux" of the entire film and said, “It was the scene that made me make the movie. I realized if I can pull off that scene, with the actors and the writer, it'd be great." De Niro explained that he wanted Max Cady to have the ability perform Charles Manson-like “mind trips” on his victims. So, he felt the necessity to have this scene. Lewis said, "When [the scene] was over, it was like I had to come down. I just went straight to [De Niro] and said, 'God, that was fun.'” The sequence became one of the film's most talked-about moments and helped Lewis nab an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. When Spielberg and De Niro were trying to convince Scorsese to direct the picture over dinner, he rejected it as he "didn't want to get involved in remakes. It's a really difficult thing to do, especially if [the original film] is a good picture.” To convince him somehow, Spielberg said to him, "Listen, if you don't like the script, you can rewrite it." Scorsese, who was suffering from fatigue after post-production work on "Goodfellas" (1990) jokingly said that he had forgotten about that part (Screenwriting) of the process. Martin Scorsese said high-energy chase sequences like this weren’t in his filmmaking wheelhouse, and he praised Spielberg for doing scenes like that “so beautifully,” while claiming his approach would have “become a cliche. I couldn't even bring myself to think about doing that sort of thing.” There wasn't any preparation for the scene. It was done in one take. About filming the scene, Scorsese said, "We froze and it was like magic." ("'Cape Fear' at 30: Why Martin Scorsese Needed Convincing to Direct Iconic Thriller (Flashback)", Joe Bergren, ET, 2021)

DepressedBergman

144,165 görüntüleme • 8 gün önce

Every major platform in history has run the same play. You’re about to watch it happen again. Jason Calacanis just went on record. He wants it clipped. He wants it shared. Calacanis: “If I was a developer of any kind, I would never work with Sam Altman and OpenAI.” This isn’t pessimism. It’s pattern recognition. And the pattern has a 40 year track record. Open. Invite. Reward. Study. Absorb. Eliminate. Microsoft let developers build Lotus 1-2-3. Then built Excel. Let them build WordPerfect. Then built Word. Flew them to conferences. Handed out awards. Studied everything. Then eliminated them. Zuckerberg ran the exact same play at Facebook. Zynga built billions in value on their platform. Then Zuckerberg shifted them without blinking. Calacanis: “Sam Altman comes from the Zuckerberg school of business. Give people access to your tools, study them, and like the Borg, steal every innovation they have.” This is how platforms grow. They don’t innovate at the edges. They let the ecosystem do it for them. Startups take the risk. Startups find the market. Startups prove the concept. Then the platform ships it natively and calls it a feature. Altman isn’t selling you compute. He’s selling you a front row seat to your own disruption. Calacanis: “This is a warning for anybody dumb enough to use Sam Altman’s OpenAI API. They are studying you.” OpenAI has the legal right to study how you use their API. You agreed to it. It’s in the terms. Every gap you find, you’re finding it for them first. Every dollar you make signals exactly where he should build next. We are at the exact same moment in AI that we were in the early internet. Developers flooded onto platforms. Built incredible things. Created real value. And handed the leverage to whoever owned the infrastructure beneath them. The AI gold rush feels different because the tools are more powerful. It isn’t different. You are not a founder. You are unpaid R&D. The builders who win the next decade won’t be the ones who used the best tools. They’ll be the ones who owned something the tools couldn’t absorb. Proprietary data. Distribution. A brand. A moat. History doesn’t warn you before it repeats. It just repeats. Thousands of developers are walking straight into this right now convinced they’re different. They’re not. Do not build your business on OpenAI. Build something he has to acquire or destroy.

Dustin

248,588 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce

Today, we’re launching the new Index. Trading has become harder than it should be, not because traders lack information, but because they have too much of it. Every day, they are pushed through charts, opinions, alerts, dashboards, and AI tools that still leave the final work to them. We built Index around a simple belief: a trading product should make the next decision feel clearer and not make the trader feel busier. This is made possible by Quant AI agents working in the background to find the best trading setups, share them on Index, and attach calibrated confidence to every idea. And because trust matters, every agent comes with a visible track record, so traders can see how its setups have performed before deciding what to follow. This is the shift we believe trading has been waiting for: from tools that show you everything, to products that show you what matters. Powered by Hyperliquid. Try it here:

Today, we’re launching the new Index. Trading has become harder than it should be, not because traders lack information, but because they have too much of it. Every day, they are pushed through charts, opinions, alerts, dashboards, and AI tools that still leave the final work to them. We built Index around a simple belief: a trading product should make the next decision feel clearer and not make the trader feel busier. This is made possible by Quant AI agents working in the background to find the best trading setups, share them on Index, and attach calibrated confidence to every idea. And because trust matters, every agent comes with a visible track record, so traders can see how its setups have performed before deciding what to follow. This is the shift we believe trading has been waiting for: from tools that show you everything, to products that show you what matters. Powered by Hyperliquid. Try it here:

Fraction AI

13,504 görüntüleme • 29 gün önce

Kurt Warner shares the lesson that changed his entire career and it applies to everything. He sat on the bench for 4 years in college. When a friend asked the coaches why he wasn't playing, the answer wasn't what he expected: "The reason I wasn't playing was because I was not very good in practice." His first reaction? Allen Iverson mode. "Practice? What're you talking about, practice?" But then he did the math. "In college we play 12 games in 365 days. In the NFL we play 16 games in 365 days." That's less than 5% of your year. "95% of our lives are lived in practice. And the biggest impression we make on people, the way people can understand and really realize who we are, is what we do every day in practice." This is the 95% Rule. And it applies to everything - sports, business, relationships, life. 1: Show Up With Your Best Effort - Compete and give your best every single day. People can't question how you show up - your effort, attitude, and actions. Consistency removes doubt. 2: Trust Is Built In Practice, Not Games - Trust is earned in the thousands of moments before it's given. Before you can be trusted, people want to know you're dependable. Every day. Not just when it matters. 3: Master Daily Consistency - Success isn't about intensity - it's about consistency. Your habits compound. What you do daily defines who you become. 4: Big Moments Are Earned In Small Moments - The little details make the biggest difference. Greatness starts with preparation - it's earned in the boredom of doing the work when no one's watching. Excellence isn't an event - It's a habit. Practice is where trust is built. How you show up daily is who you really are. (🎥 Passing the Torch Podcast) (🎥 Kurt Warner)

Kurt Warner shares the lesson that changed his entire career and it applies to everything. He sat on the bench for 4 years in college. When a friend asked the coaches why he wasn't playing, the answer wasn't what he expected: "The reason I wasn't playing was because I was not very good in practice." His first reaction? Allen Iverson mode. "Practice? What're you talking about, practice?" But then he did the math. "In college we play 12 games in 365 days. In the NFL we play 16 games in 365 days." That's less than 5% of your year. "95% of our lives are lived in practice. And the biggest impression we make on people, the way people can understand and really realize who we are, is what we do every day in practice." This is the 95% Rule. And it applies to everything - sports, business, relationships, life. 1: Show Up With Your Best Effort - Compete and give your best every single day. People can't question how you show up - your effort, attitude, and actions. Consistency removes doubt. 2: Trust Is Built In Practice, Not Games - Trust is earned in the thousands of moments before it's given. Before you can be trusted, people want to know you're dependable. Every day. Not just when it matters. 3: Master Daily Consistency - Success isn't about intensity - it's about consistency. Your habits compound. What you do daily defines who you become. 4: Big Moments Are Earned In Small Moments - The little details make the biggest difference. Greatness starts with preparation - it's earned in the boredom of doing the work when no one's watching. Excellence isn't an event - It's a habit. Practice is where trust is built. How you show up daily is who you really are. (🎥 Passing the Torch Podcast) (🎥 Kurt Warner)

Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness

1,270,658 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce