Trevor McKendrick - Being a professional

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How Matt Damon got through filming a movie he knew would be bad (video)

Love seeing a super rich & famous actor talk about what it means to be a “professional”.

In this case, he means working extremely hard, long days even when you know halfway through a shoot that the movie’s gonna suck.

This guys analyzed 13 months of his dating data (tweet)

If you like seeing flow charts about how people use products, you will LOVE seeing this guy’s dating flowchart.

For $973, we rented a $4,500,000 villa overnight in China (tweet)

Evergrande is going bankrupt. Everything is empty.

How one man created a multimillion-dollar resale market for Buc-ee’s snacks (article)

You know you’ve made it when people are creating businesses reselling your product at a markup after having purchased it from you @ retail prices.

I think I’m at the point of sufficient confidence to say that problem legibility is the constraining factor upstream of lots of other things (tweet)

I view this as: defining the actual, real problem to be solved is much more important than, say, finding the people or resources to solve that problem.

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“Have a friend who has 24 hr / day, 7 day / week nannies, to the point where neither he nor his partner have defined childcare responsibilities”

Hello. I’m Karl. (blog website)

One of the reasons I think YC worked is because I truly do believe in everyone and got them to believe in themselves (tweet)

On Lucidity (article)

You are a morale-drive machine (article)

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