the president of Y Combinator and co-chairman of OpenAI. Here is one of the many paragraphs I highlighted in Evernote: “Most highly successful people have been really right about the future at least once at a time when people thought they were wrong. If not, they would have faced much more competition.”

This is a 2019 blog post from Sam Altman that I often re-read. It’s a list of 13 principles for success that’s jam-packed with useful insights and perspectives. The entire piece is worth reading (and bookmarking).

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But most influential: @sama on how to be successful. It directly drove decisions in a key period of my life that I wouldn't have made if not for the essay.