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I suspect the debate over the ethics will be much more heated than the debate over steroids in baseball or any other sport, where the use is limited to a select group of freakish athletes.

Ben Casnocha

I’ve always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.
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Diary Entrepreneur Writing
I to the We means that both the individual’s effort and the power of the network matter, and they work in tandem. Someone with no skill won’t get very far, no matter how strong the network.
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Effort Mean Strong
I don’t want to be normal. I want to be something else.
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Normal Something Want
Sometimes Plan B can have the same desired outcome, but a different path for getting there.
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Different Path Sometimes
I suspect the debate over the ethics will be much more heated than the debate over steroids in baseball or any other sport, where the use is limited to a select group of freakish athletes.
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Debate Group Limited Other
Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.
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Expose Possible Random
I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?
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Hearing Odds Writing
The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.
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Dumb People Smart
Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.
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Book Reading Talking
I really focused on three things in high school – my company, basketball and my school work.
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Basketball School Three
I’m just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.
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Big Dots Maps
If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.
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Argument Ideas Metaphor
It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
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Class School Years
I have a broad range of interests, so I’ll always be working on something.
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Broads Interest Range
One theme that fascinates me is cognitive enhancement. It seems only a matter of time until we live in a world where steroids for the brain are readily available to all. And once we come to grips with that reality,
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Athlete Baseball Sports
Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.
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Before Skeptical Thing Thumbs

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