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2 Nov, 10 tweets, 6 min read
ICYMI yesterday's @ProfileRead: We talk about the importance of learning paired with swift action

theprofile.substack.com/p/the-profile-…
The investors betting big on crypto: Fred Ehrsam & Matt Huang convinced top institutions to give them $750 million to invest in a market they were too blue-blooded to touch directly. Take a look inside cryptocurrency VC firm Paradigm. (@alexrkonrad)

forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…
The world's best bureaucrat: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's propensity for action has kept the economy relatively stable in the face of the unprecedented crisis that was COVID-19. Meet one of the most powerful figures in Washington. (@jbarro)

nymag.com/intelligencer/…
The most powerful executive in social media: You've probably never heard of Vijaya Gadde. Gadde is Twitter's top lawyer, who has helped drive the company to more heavily regulate what users can say and post. (@nancyscola)

politico.com/news/magazine/…
The remote football coach: What if you could coach a high school football team in Alaska while eating dinner at home in California 2,000 miles away? Coach Justin Zank did it & even led his team to victory at the end of the season (@ConorOrr)

si.com/high-school/20…
Hollywood's outspoken philosopher: Matthew McConaughey does not merely let life happen to him. “It’s always been obvious to me that I do not have a laissez-faire attitude,” he said. (@ditzkoff)

nytimes.com/2020/10/14/boo…
The bangle billionaire who fell from grace: It’s been a really bad couple of years for Carolyn Rafaelian & her jewelry brand Alex and Ani. It was a dramatic reversal of fortune for the entrepreneur who became a media darling. (@KristinStoller)

forbes.com/sites/kristins…
The man who taught Uber how to apologize: Social scientists have long studied what kinds of apologies work. But John List had a unique vantage point as the chief economist of Uber — he could actually measure the impact. (@BBCNews)

bbc.com/news/stories-5…
The cooler company thriving in crisis: Nothing about what Yeti sells should have poised it well for a crisis: Its signature product is a $300 luxury cooler & its most profitable one is a cup used by commuters. But somehow, Yeti has thrived (@CherylAnneNY)

marker.medium.com/how-yeti-survi…
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3 Nov
On Election Eve, here are the top 10 lessons on leadership I've learned from the world's most interesting & successful people:

Shockingly (or not), none of them are politicians.

🧵 below:
1. Know the edge of your own competence.

When Charlie Munger was younger, he struggled to overcome his own arrogance.

Over the years, he’s learned a valuable lesson: No one is infallible, and you need to operate within the subject areas you know best.

theprofile.substack.com/p/the-profile-…
2. Let people be their true selves.

As a leader, Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya believes you have a responsibility to create an environment where people don’t feel like they have to pretend in order to fit in.

“Normalize the phrase, ‘I don’t know,’” he says

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1 Nov
Time is our most precious resource.

I started thinking about this when I published a deep-dive on Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of the popular musical "Hamilton."

"Hamilton" focuses on the life of Alexander Hamilton, one of the nation's most prominent Founding Fathers.

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Born out of wedlock, raised in poverty in St. Croix, abandoned by his father, and orphaned by his mother as a child, Hamilton moved to New York City as a teen.
Determined to make the most of his life, he authored two-thirds of the Federalist Papers, served as George Washington’s aide during the Revolutionary War, and became America’s first Treasury Secretary.
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19 Aug
I've read thousands of long-form profiles since launching @ProfileRead 3 years ago.

I want to introduce you to 10 of the world's most interesting people that you've probably never heard of.

Meet them below 👇
Richard Montañez was a janitor w/ a 4th-grade level education who couldn’t read or write.

But he was a janitor with an idea — one that would make Frito-Lay billions of dollars and become one of history’s most iconic snack foods: Flamin’ Hot Cheetos

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Jennifer Wynn's job is to compile the life story of a defendant, so the information can be used to convince a jury to deliver a sentence other than death.

Wynn has worked on 30 murder cases (25 of which were death penalty-eligible) & won them all.

melmagazine.com/en-us/story/me…
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29 Jul
Here are the top 10 actionable lessons I've learned from the world's most successful people by working on the @ProfileRead every week:

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1. Be interesting, not perfect

Malcolm Gladwell says people are drawn to things that are done imperfectly. Whether it’s art, movies, or books, people talk more about the flawed things that get stuck in their head than they do the obvious, perfect things

theprofile.substack.com/p/the-profile-…
2. Start from first principles

So many of us do things a certain way simply b/c that’s how they’ve always been done. Few ask, “Why?” @elonmusk says we need to think like a scientist and start with only the information you know to be scientific fact.

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