Something I taught 13 yo: Making important decisions without consulting anyone else is not a sign of strength or intelligence. In fact rather the opposite.↗

My top 12 threads of 2021 🤸🏽‍♀️ On mental models, gamification, decision making, and new ways to learn 🪡↗

Simple business lessons from a 14-hour road trip: 1) We spend too much time thinking about the last few turns and not enough deciding which interstate to use. Sweat the big stuff. 2) Small changes in speed make a big difference over long periods of time. Can you go 5% faster?↗

All of these brilliant people (@nntaleb @naval @nickkokonas) talk about the importance of doing things or investing in things with “asymmetric risk” (huge upside, limited downside). But I’ve never seen a list of what those things might be. Let’s create one. I’ll start...↗

1/ What drives decisions for (bad) VCs. This is going to be fun.↗