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.
BEN CASNOCHAI’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.
BEN CASNOCHAI really focused on three things in high school – my company, basketball and my school work.
BEN CASNOCHAI’m just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.
BEN CASNOCHAExpose yourself to as much randomness as possible.
BEN CASNOCHASometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.
BEN CASNOCHAI 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.
BEN CASNOCHASometimes Plan B can have the same desired outcome, but a different path for getting there.
BEN CASNOCHAThe internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.
BEN CASNOCHAIf you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.
BEN CASNOCHAI have a broad range of interests, so I’ll always be working on something.
BEN CASNOCHAI’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?
BEN CASNOCHARule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.
BEN CASNOCHAIf frequency with which you cite an education credential does not decrease over the course of your life, you’re not accomplishing very much.
BEN CASNOCHASimilarly, someone with lots of skill but a weak network won’t realize his or her fullest potential. So, you need both.
BEN CASNOCHAOne 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,
BEN CASNOCHAIt 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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