Is there a movie, song or book that fills you with optimism for the future?

On Possible, this is one of the questions that we ask every guest.

Here’s what everyone said—from @Trevornoah to @sama to @ariel_ekblaw—in Season 1: Trevor Noah said The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar fills him with optimism for the future.

“It’s a beautiful story about what people can be and what we shouldn’t forget we’re actually trying to do.”

For more from @Trevornoah, here’s his episode: link.chtbl.com/yYtGB_8z

What if, in the future, everything breaks humanity's way?

In my new podcast, Possible, my co-host @ariairene and I talk with some sharp minds to sketch out the brightest future and what it'll take to get there. We also invite another guest, GPT-4, to help us.

Here's a preview: Here’s a little bit more on why @ariairene and I are so galvanized by Possible, our guests, and what humanity could possibly get right if we leverage technology—and our collective effort—effectively.

I wrote a new book with @OpenAI’s latest, most powerful large language model.

It’s called Impromptu: Amplifying our Humanity through AI.

This, as far as I know, is the first book written with GPT-4.

Here’s how it all began…

impromptubook.com/wp-content/upl… Last summer, I got access to GPT-4. It felt like I had a new kind of passport.

My pages were quickly filled with stamps: Over 1,000 prompts. 800+ pages of outputs. Just in the first few months.

I believe that a guiding mission will take you farther than the success of any one product. And if you’re ever forced to choose between them, choose the mission every time.

https://twitter.com/mastersofscale/status/1574809782720102400

Letting go is hard. It’s easy to fool yourself into thinking a product or service is on mission. Maybe it reaches a lot of people, or maybe the feedback is great, or it makes lots of money, or maybe you grew it from nothing and can’t bear to let it go.

Immigration is pure entrepreneurship. You leave behind everything familiar to start somewhere new. You must acquire skills. You will have to improvise on occasion. It’s a bold proposition. To succeed, you need support from the people around you. That’s true for everyone, but especially for immigrants—and, in particular, immigrant children.

This population is a large, growing group in the US: 1 of 4 students under age 17 is an immigrant or the child of immigrants.

Inspired by the potential of DALL•E and NFTs — and the possibilities that they unleash together — my team and I have created a number of small image collections that we'll be tokenizing as NFTs.

The first collection debuts on Magic Eden today.

Here's why I'm experimenting: "A picture is worth a thousand words."

But with DALL•E the inverse is true: a single word is worth a thousand pictures.

I’ve been struck by how DALL•E simultaneously creates both digital abundance and digital scarcity.

A great piece of career advice is to just “follow your passion” right?

Wrong! When it comes to crafting a great career, that’s not the whole picture. You must also take into account the skills that will differentiate you, and where they fit into the marketplace.

Not surprised to see Trump's attacks on @elonmusk. Elon's a classic 🇺🇸 immigrant story - an entrepreneur with a real record of success. Started EV revolution w/Tesla, resurrected US rocket industry w/SpaceX, fighting climate change while promoting American innovation. Trump, OTOH, is a spoiled rich kid who bankrupts everything he touches. Including the US economy. His career highlight was pretending to be a successful entrepreneur on a TV show, instead of being one in real life like Elon.

Risk tends to get a bad rap.

But it isn’t the enemy — it’s an unavoidable part of life.

Here's how to think about risk: Risk is the flip side of every opportunity, every career move.

Some people think: "I'm going to stay at my job because at least it's a steady paycheck."

But succumbing to complacency is one of the riskiest things you can do.

Inaction is often much riskier than action.

It's a small world...

Yet your network is bigger than you think.

Here's how to use it to your advantage: We're all just 6 degrees away from each other.

It's true.

From Stanley Milgram's 1967 study:

100s of people in Nebraska were asked to mail a letter to someone they knew personally who might in turn know a specific stockbroker in Massachusetts...

An unlock for your career: network literacy.

It's knowing how to access information across your relationships. Both online and off.

Here's how network literacy works: 1. Categorize experts across your network.

• Domain experts: People who know the ins and outs of your industry.

• Free-range experts: Really smart people you trust. To help you gut check opportunities.

• "You" experts: People who know you best. To help you unpack emotions.

Here's a story I’ve rarely told.

How I knew it was time to create LinkedIn: I was part of the executive team at a startup called PayPal.

After several years of 100-hour weeks, a lot of luck, and a few scrapes with federal banking rules, we managed to sell PayPal to eBay.

I was 35 and utterly exhausted.

"Make a 10-year plan! Follow your passion!"

Solid career advice, right?

Wrong.

Here’s why: Deep introspection of where you want to be in 10 years sounds like a good idea...

But it assumes a static world. And an unchanging you.

Grateful to partner with @benafisch, @benediktbuenz @charleslu1, @jillrgunter, and @m_mosier of @EspressoSys to co-lead its Series A with @SethGRosenberg and @ElectricCapital's @avichal and @jubos. Since my days at PayPal and early participation in the Bitcoin community, I've been excited by the promise of truly scalable programmable money.

To date, though, there have been many trade-offs between decentralization, high fees, and lack of privacy.

After more than 1,000 board meetings at Microsoft, Airbnb, LinkedIn, PayPal, and more...

I've learned that effective boards don't happen by accident.

Here are 8 rituals of the world's best boards: 👇 1. Be inclusive.

Many board meetings are dominated by one or two board members.

The best boards seek out the opinions of everyone in the room, not just the loudest.

Blitzscaling your company isn’t easy; if it were, everyone would do it. Like most things of value in this world, blitzscaling is contrarian and unique. To succeed, you’ll have to violate many of the management “rules” that are designed for efficiency and risk minimization. In honor of the launch of Blitzscaling, here are the 9 Counterintuitive Rules of #Blitzscaling...