Vance (Farouk) Grissom
@fvgrissmaking stuff | busy work = the enemy | America runs on SMBs
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super simple framework, but while 'The Mom Test' and others made it acceptable to use the word 'pain' when talking about what's valuable (esp in corporate settings), i just wish more people could in all seriousness use the word 'joy' to go along with it fvgriss.com/essays/time-jo…
can I have one of these for more writers plz
uhh claude analysis just did in literally 5 minutes what i used to spend a few hours doing for portfolio companies. v glad i am not a full-time financial analyst tonight, long live financial analysts
i have huge respect for people who buy SMBs, knowing that you can do as much diligence as humanly possible and still get blindsided by innocent or deceitful sneakiness
random story from my childhood, but watching the news reminded me of the 1st time i played paintball, back in Beirut - specifically Dahieh, the suburb with Hezbollah headquarters that’s been heavily targeted in the past few days. i was in 5th grade (late 2000s) and it was a…
this resonates on several fronts. too much left hemisphere, not enough right. Thiel’s world where courage is in less supply than genius. bad selection: “it is far better for your political career to put on a good show on the Today programme than to solve a significant problem.”
one of the most concise summaries i’ve found of @dr_mcgilchrist ’s work, which i’ve sent as a teaser for friends that want to know what he’s about but aren’t ready to commit to reading any of his books (yet)… even Jesus needed a Paul
It took me 3 months to put 10 years of research on curiosity into a 20min presentation... ...So when @GrahamDuncanNYC challenged me to compress it down to 5min for the @SohnConf yesterday, I obviously went insane. Here it is.
Thought about this clip for a long time... how much of life is just the meetings that Seinfeld describes? I hold that wishful thinking has to be one of *the greatest* drivers of economic spend. Anyways, a short write up: fvgriss.com/essays/life-as…
this funny, insigntful exchange between seinfeld and burr about meetings in showbiz goes far beyond the domain of showbiz. it also applies to dating, to being “an ideas guy”, living in fantasy over reality, avoiding difficult and uncomfortable situations, unhelpful therapy…
it's so weird to me that most people can't easily answer the question, 'how much of what you did last week could you have automated?'
i am a little sad that i no longer need to introduce myself as, “Vance - like Bob Vance, Vance refrigeration”
"We know that 80% of marketing doesn't work. The problem is, we don't know which 80%." -@rorysutherland If you don't know exactly where the 80-20 split falls, don't try to replace or nix 80% of your system
The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID)
this funny, insigntful exchange between seinfeld and burr about meetings in showbiz goes far beyond the domain of showbiz. it also applies to dating, to being “an ideas guy”, living in fantasy over reality, avoiding difficult and uncomfortable situations, unhelpful therapy…
somehow this captures a part of Hofstadter’s unfolding of DNA through time, with DNA as a reduced dimensional ‘representation’ of multidimensional information (the block is *not* its shadow).
The riddle of the Sphinx: a sculpture of many shadows by artist John V. Muntean
the last few months have been a successful experiment in following my own curiosity. A booklist: - Godel, Escher, Bach - Chaos: Making a New Science - The Diamond Age - The Master and his Emissary - Memories, Dreams, Reflections - Brothers Karamazov
Finance as Alchemy - fvgriss.com/7f15fe00e93142…
Since high school, I've tried to catch an idea - first prompted by a @rorysutherland Ted talk. It became an uneasy feeling at Stanford, which only grew working in Silicon Valley. Too many people - who truly shaped the future - treated the world as only Explanation but no Myth.
The UAE Minister of AI @OmarSAlolama points to a historical precedent of premature technology regulation motivated by fear: the ban of the printing press in 1515 by Sultan Selim I led to the decline of the Ottoman Empire. “We overregulated a technology, which was the printing…
Notes on Claude Shannon (father of Information Theory), who actually made his wealth as an underrated but incredibly successful angel investor
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