Trevor McKendrick - You can't tell people anything

Hi all,

Have an amazing week.

Trevor

The Cystic-Fibrosis Breakthrough that Changed Everything (article)

We’ve mostly cured Cystic-Fibrosis, a terminal disease.

People who planned their life assuming they’d die in their 20s and 30s are now opening 401ks, having children, and going back to school.

One of the most beautiful articles I can remember reading.

You can’t tell people anything (article)

People need context and experience and a place to put things in their mind.

If they don’t have those, it doesn’t matter how many times or in what detail you explain or show something - they won’t get it.

Bill Ackman podcast w/ Lex Fridman (podcast)

Topics I enjoyed listening about:

• Shorting Herbalife
• Removing the president of Harvard
• Investment thesis for Universal Music Group
• Investment in Canadian Pacific Railway

Forbes on Garry Tan’s leadership at YC (article)

Garry has taken YC back to its roots, and the changes he’s made I support 100%.

Decreasing the batch size & increasing the average quality of entering companies was absolutely the right move.

Doing YC was one of the best decisions we ever made at Seis.

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