So you learn something complex and confusing.

The best way to understand is to teach it in simple terms.

That's why Reddit's ELI5 "Explain it like I'm 5" is gold.

Here are some of the best ones🧵
What is short selling a stock?
Why can your body have a "sleep debt" but not a "sleep surplus"?
Why does rubbing your head when you hit it make it feel better?
What is a “super computer” and what can it do?
What is an API and why is it useful?
Crypto is code. Isn't it hosted on a server somewhere on the world? Break the computer, break the crypto?
How can our brains remember that we forgot something, but it can't remember what we forgot?
Why do people get tired/fatigued more easily as they age?
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30 Jun
Facebook just became the fastest business to hit a $1 trillion valuation.

17 years and 3 billion users later...

Here are 9 memorable moments 🧵
The Winklevii

In 2003, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss pitch Zuck on a Harvard social network called ConnectU.

50 emails later, they didn't realize Zuck was secretly working on a different project.

Mark registers TheFacebook..com on January 11, 2004
In 2006, everyone told Zuckerberg to sell.

Yahoo was offering $1B.

He was 22 and stood to make $300M.

Despite the pressure, he refused and raised at a $15 billion valuation the next year.

Zuck was right.
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28 Jun
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings thought this startup would fail.

But Roku turned from an afterthought into a $45 billion business.

Here's an epic story👇
In 2007, Roku CEO Anthony Wood cold calls Reed Hastings.

Here's how it MAY have went down😉:

Wood: "Hey Reed I want to build the best TV streaming box for Netflix that the world's ever seen."

Hastings: "How did you get my number?"
Wood: "I knew the area code and then guessed all 47,569 potential combos. It took me 146 hours.

Can I take you to lunch to talk more?"

*30 seconds of phone silence later*

Hastings: "Well, you're pretty persistent. Let's do it."
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24 Jun
I studied the best 10 investors the world’s ever seen.

Here's what you need to know:
Price is a liar.

"Market prices are always wrong because they just show a biased view of the future."

- George Soros
Enter a meeting with a founder with a zen-like blank slate of perfect humility.

Your only thought: "Teach Me"

Because all breakthrough technologies seem crazy at first.

- Marc Andreesen
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20 Jun
Bezos and Gates invested in his startup.

Today, it's a $3.3 billion business.

Here's what I learned from interviewing Dan Lewis👇
You're not the CEO.

You're the CSO.

Chief Storytelling Officer.
What to ask potential customers:

1) What goes wrong most often?

2) What's your least favorite thing?

3) What do you wish would be better?
Read 14 tweets
17 Jun
2.5 billion blog posts are published every year.

But let's be honest, most of them are garbage.

Here are 8 that will make you smarter today👇
"6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person"

Ignore the click baity title and read this 2012 gem.

1 Quote:

"Either you will go see to those needs by learning a unique set of skills, or the world will reject you, no matter how inoffensive and courteous you are."
"Why Procrastinators Procrastinate"

by @waitbutwhy

Get ready for the Instant Gratification Monkey, Panic Monster and the Dark Playground.

1 Graphic:
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13 Jun
"Career planning is for losers."
- Marc Andreesen (probably)

I read 10,000 words of career advice from @pmarca.

Here are 10 lessons👇
Rule 1: Don't plan your career.

The world is changing too fast.

Impossible to plan when you can't predict the future.

Career planning = Career limiting
Treat your career as an investment portfolio.

Need both safe and risky investments with different returns (or benefits).

Risky = 5 person startup

Safe = Facebook as the millionth employee

Different investments are better for different times.
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