Understanding could only get me so far and it was in the unprompted moments of stillness that I could embrace a new reality.
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How do you scale human capital? You don't. At least, not if you're trying to make a high performing organization.
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How do you scale human capital? You don't. At least, not if you're trying to make a high performing organization.
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I would tell my 21 year old self: "Be more disagreeable. Don't seek permission because it'll just cause you pain. "
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An obsessive desire for financial freedom shows a lack of self-awareness.
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Overtaxing the rich is the fastest way to ruin the economy and society at large.
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A glimpse into Korean work culture from a coffeeshop conversation.
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Karl Lagerfeld died two days after I learned about him.
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Charles Koch says he wanted to stand on the shoulders of giants and I spend my Saturday night standing on the shoulder of a 95 year old man in a wheelchair.
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Interesting people will change the world, not the specialized majority.
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Historically, the capital required to start companies was high and to maintain them was equally costly. Whether it be in the form of new software systems or giant manufacturing systems.
The largest cost to a company will now be on people.
With that, the future of investing will be on human capital. The acquisition, and development of talent.
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"The team you build is the company you build" - Vinod Khosla
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In 2018, I read 27 books. Of which I completed 23.
Previously, I wrote about the 10 lessons I learned from reading. Since then I've been ruminating over Lesson #1: Loving what you read.
See, even for the 23 books I had read in the year, some have stuck in my mind more than others. It may be that some were better books with better content.
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Two men sit across from each other. They've come to a coffee shop but neither are drinking coffee. They both ordered a glass bottled water. Those usually tend to be some kind of European sparkling water.
So my first assumption is that they did not come here for the coffee. Just to chat.
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Why do we exercise? Why do we eat healthy? Why is breakfast important? Why do you fast?
Fitness and diet trends are everywhere. Some are mere fads, some have merit, some need more time to be proven out.
One word that keeps popping up as having been the beneficiary of so many of the above questions is insulin. But I admit I don't really know that much about the hormone. Is insulin sensitivity good or not? What's resistance? What the hell does insulin do?
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“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” - Mark Twain
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At a higher level, I think most jobs, roles, positions, occupations etc... have three major buckets where all activities would be slotted into: Learning, Thinking and Executing.
Every job has components of it that fit under one of those three buckets but the amount of time one spends doing activities in each bucket will vary. Not to mention, how one goes about learning, thinking and executing will vary per role as well.
What am I getting at?
Well, here are some point of views from my professional experience as an auditor, consultant and investor.
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In the Effective Executive, Peter Drucker listed 3 things one should be aware of. One of them is on whether you know what your strengths are.
It's also a common interview question: "What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses?"
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Odds are you are an average driver. You are most probably not a great driver and likely not an above-average driver either, contrary to your popular belief.
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See, for most people, if they were not forced out, they would never quit or leave. Some call this life-time job security. I think this is the death spiral.
As a system is the whole of parts, individualistic implosion from such a spiral will result in a systematic failure in organizations as a whole.
Needless to say, a system needs stressors.
It is in that thought process that I write about the value of termination.
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