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I feel an overpowering urge to forgive, because I realize that my father can't help himself. My father is what he is, and always will be. And though he can't tell the difference between l…

Andre Agassi:

Brad says my overall problem, the problem that threatens to end my career prematurely, the problem that feels like my father’s legacy, is perfectionism.

“You always try to be perf…

This reads like a paragraph taken straight out of Seth Godin’s All Marketers are Liars, about the story you tell with packaging, distribution channels, and every other aspect of your product:

Field …

When asked during the fireside chat with Jason Calacanis during SXSWi this year, whether he was democrat or republican, Tim O’Reilly answered:

I think I’m a taoist.

Something else interesting he sai…

I’ve recently finished Gordon Ramsay’s auto-biography, I’m on to Andre Agassi’s, and next up is Ted Turner’s (I started reading it as a book, but I prefer audiobooks).

Biographies can be so much more r…

Andre Agassi in Open: An Autobiography:

I’ve internalized my father. His impatience. His perfectionism. His rage. Until his voice doesn’t just feel like my own. It is my own. I no longer need my fat…

I’m fascinated by the relationship between childhood and upbringing and entrepreneurship or creativity of any sort.

John Cleese wrote the book “Families and how to survive them” back in 1984, and when …

Chin-Ning Chu in Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life:

Dozens of books are published each year that attempt to teach you how to make you…

Noah Glass on that inner knowing:

At that time, even in the very early stages, I had this strange feeling that I had never had before - that this was something big. I felt it from the onset. People …

What’s the purpose of a business?

Most people will tell you the purpose is to make money, to profit.

I say the purpose of a business is to create positive change in the world.

Why not?

We’re only here onc…