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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Optimism should be a verb

Monday, March 4, 2024

Hi all, I'll be @ Fintech Meetup this week - email me if you want to say hi. Trevor ”In admiration of some of the best programmers I've worked with” (article) This describes the superpower of

It's harder to be kind than nice

Monday, February 26, 2024

Hi all, Have an amazing week. Trevor Private Equity: A Memoir (book) The former executive assistant of Chase Coleman, the founder and CEO of Tiger Global, wrote a memoir about her time in that role.

The life of every person is a singularity

Monday, February 19, 2024

Hello and good morning! Very light links this week. Have a great week. Trevor The Fall of Heaven (book) A book about the fall of the last King of Iran in 1979 that turned Iran into an Islamic Republic.

Try to go faster

Monday, February 12, 2024

Hi all, Have an amazing week! Trevor Moved to tears (article) Story of a guy so into his work that when he accomplished his goal, he cried. May we all find something to do with our lives that brings us

How to do things

Monday, February 5, 2024

Hi all, A thing I've learned many times, and have seen happen in the world, is that you can just decide to do something. You can decide to get in shape. You can decide to start whatever insane

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