Reading up on Marc Andreessen
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Marc Andreessen outlines Dr. James Austin's four types of luck—blind, motion-driven, prepared‑mind, and individualized—and shows how entrepreneurs can cultivate each.
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Marc Andreessen says his new life coach is a YouTuber with 100 videos about “retardmaxxing”: "There's this guy on YouTube who has basically a hundred videos on retardmaxxing." "He's like my new life coach. I haven't met him, but from a distance." "It's basically just—retardmaxx. Go to work, do a good job, come home, it's fine. Start a company, it succeeds, it fails, it's fine. Have too much to eat one night at dinner, it's fine. Go to the gym, don't count your reps, it's fine. Ask a girl if she wants to go out with you, if she says no, it's fine." "It's like 100 30-minute videos about retardmaxxing. And you would think that after the first two minutes, he kind of covered it. But no." "And by the way, they're all hysterical. They're all absolutely fantastic. It's literally him on his porch in the middle of nowhere with a cigar, and it's like a half hour." "It's just absolutely spectacular." @pmarca with @HarryStebbings
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