Mark Zuckerberg on Taking Risks and Finding Talented People

Many spiritual and religious traditions talk about the human tendency to spend too much time outside the present moment. According to a Harvard University study, we spend almost fifty percent of the time we are awake, not thinking about what we are doing.…

Okay, so here are three rules to live by that will quickly improve your life. Rule number one: Follow the path of most resistance. Now, this obviously isn’t an absolute rule. Like, you probably have a lot of resistance towards driving into oncoming traff…

So just as a bit of a review, if we take the members of a certain species that share the same area, we call that a population. Population, all of the organisms in this particular population will be members of the same species. There could be other member…

On May 19, 2005, Michael Bury bought his first credit default swaps in anticipation of the housing crisis: 60 million of credit default swaps from Deutsche Bank, 10 million each on six different bonds. His prediction: the U.S. mortgage-backed security, on…

So next up, all right, Gary Tan and I are going to do onstage office hours. This is most of what happens during Y.C. The partners meet individually with startups, and we give them advice about whatever problems they’re facing. It’s usually 25 minutes per …

Hello, internet. Let’s talk about this map, this argument, and the Electoral College in general. In my “Trouble With The Electoral College” video from 2011, I was wrong to use the city limits for that part of the argument, rather than the more expansive m…