Auren Hoffman Quotes

if a book is designed for the broader public, it had an audiobook
books with no audiobook are designed just of a very niche audience

the best way to improve is show someone an example of someone just like them that is slightly better.

don't show me an example of Steph Curry. i'll never be able to shoot a basketball like him. show me an example of someone that is slightly better then me.

the analogies of businesses to sports teams are wrong on so many levels. sports teams are capped. businesses are uncapped.
businesses are more like the NBA than an individual basketball team.

Old ponzi: steal from reputable charities
New ponzi: steal from international criminal cartels

how wealthy one feels is a much greater prediction of a consumer's spend than how wealthy they actually are

Low-EQ people don’t give off many non-verbal cues themselves — at least not on purpose. And one of the frustrating things about being low-EQ is that you often get misunderstood by others. People might think you are unhappy when you are actually very happy.

Low-EQ leaders need to rely on emotional translators. They can entrust other high-EQ executives with translation and interpretation. They can tell you when someone does X, they really mean Y.

value of human life is a tough concept, but it’s a reality that exists and easy to see in the data (what gov spends for safety improvements, etc)

a statistical life in the US is worth about $10m….the value of a life in a poor country is about $100,000. 100x difference.

things rich people do not want you to know:
they actually have great relationships with their kids

all internal product launches should have code names that can be represented by emojis.

summer: always too cold indoors and too hot outdoors
winter: always too hot indoors and too cold outdoors

Gen X is the punching bag generation
it is the generation that everyone else equally hates ... and yet it will likely be the one that is called upon to steer us out the mess

if data is the new oil, then unstructured data is shale.

because unstructured data is becoming easier and easier to work with

a healthy society is one where the growth in the number of players exceeds the growth in the number of referees

low-EQ CEOs can gain from clearly explaining your thinking to others. This takes out the “guessing game” for your co-workers.
Because people are more likely to misunderstand low-EQ people, you will need to go to greater lengths to show your thinking.