Friday's Too Good Not to Share: 4.21.23
Every Friday, I share other great content (with some added context) to dive into over the weekend. These could be articles, podcasts, videos, Twitter threads, or other great newsletters.
In short, these are the most interesting of the interesting stuff I've come across.
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Ravi Gupta: The Realities of Success [The Knowledge Project Ep. #164]
Ravi Gupta has served as a partner at Sequoia Capital since 2019. Prior to joining the world of venture capital, he served as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Instacart, and he also spent a decade working in private equity with KKR & Co.
He sat with Shane Parrish to discuss a wide range of topics, but one of his most interesting insights came toward the end of the conversation when he was talking about hiring the right people.
Listen to the talk the full scenario, but just remember that most things in life are not gymnastics, you don't get extra points for the degree of difficulty. Do the simple thing [timestamp here].
Listen/watch on: YouTube | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Transcript
Ken Griffey Jr., Iconic Athlete Talks Career, Fatherhood, Aaron Judge & Lebron | The Pivot Podcast
Ken Griffey Jr. is just a normal guy, in his mind. But to many of us, he's the reason we turned our baseball caps backward when stepping up to home plate. It's refreshing to see how he balances being confident in who he is and what he's done while not becoming pretentious.
Again, he's just a normal guy... that flew himself on his plane to this interview lol.
Watch the full interview here.
The Myth of the Broke Millennial
From this fascinating Atlantic piece via Apple News:
"Impressions of generations tend to form early, and they often get cast in amber. As a scholar of generations, I’m well aware of that. But even I was surprised when I returned to my study of Millennials to look at the generation as it enters middle age.
The surprise was this: Millennials, as a group, are not broke—they are, in fact, thriving economically. That wasn’t true a decade ago, and prosperity within the generation today is not evenly shared. But since the mid-2010s, Millennials on the whole have made a breathtaking financial comeback.
This is terrific news. And yet it’s not all good news, because the belief that Millennials have been excluded from the implicit promises that America makes to its people—a house for most, middle-class security, a better life than your parents had—remains predominant in society and, to go by surveys and the tenor of social media, among Millennials themselves.
That prompts a question with implications for the cultural and political future of the United States, a country premised, to a large extent, on the idea of material progress: What if the American dream is still alive, but no one believes it to be?"
Read the full article here: Apple News | Pocket
Leave today better than yesterday ✌️.
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