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… - Auren Hoffman

focus on being long-term nice over short-term nice.
it feels good to be nice.
Every parent loves to see their child smile over a bowl of ice cream… but you’d never let your kids eat ice cream all the time.

instead of asking people that are >10 years older than you for job advice, try asking people that are 10 years younger ... you might learn a lot more

People that drop out of college are way worse off than people that never go in the first place (outside of outliers like Zuck, Gates, etc.) - all the debt, none of the benefit

its a huge policy failure that policymakers treat everyone’s higher ed completion probability as 100%. In reality the completion rate is roughly 50%.