1) Steph Curry is very good at basketball
2) What jumps out to me in this is an analogy to hiring. The difference one person can make on how your team/group/company operates can be massive and the difference between excellence and a mess.
May 2025 Magazine: Podcasts, AI, & Self-Driving Cars
Monthly magazine for May 2025
Science & Technology
Self-driving cars are here (the future is here just not evenly distributed) - every week one quarter of a million Americans take a Waymo in SF, Phoenix, Austin, or LA.
A self driving car will be the safest car on the road - every year 1.2 million people die in car accidents, while Waymo has had far fewer crashes than human drivers and no fatalities.
Podcast Highlights
Morgan Housel:
- “There are two topics that will impact you whether you are interested in it or not: health and money. They are interested in you. You can have a good life without knowing anything about chemistry or meteorology if you’re not interested in them. You cannot have a good life without knowing anything about finance and health.”
- “In the 50s, 60s, 70s we were building so many new houses that houses were way cheaper. An entry level house used to be 700 square feet, 2 bedrooms, and 1 bathroom for family of 5. Now it’s 2200 square feet. House expectations have expanded tremendously. So the advice to get a house early in your career was more broadly applicable back then.”
David Senra:
- “Mediocrity is invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.”
- “‘Overpay’ for talent, because you can’t really overpay for talent. Per Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, and Jim Simmons: once you identify the smartest and best talent you do everything in your power to bring them in with you.”
- Senra’s top lesson from making 300 biography podcasts: “Focus - do one thing relentlessly. Focus is a superpower. Harnessing our energy on a single goal for a long period of time is the simplest, most consistent formula for greatness. Read any biography of a great leader, inventor, or pioneer and you will typically observe a monomaniacal obsession with a single cause or goal. Warren Buffett has read 10-Ks for 7 hours per day for 60 years. Walt Disney spent 3 full years working on the animated feature film Snow White.”
