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Katerina Yip
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Jan 29, 2022

Round up of books Jan 2022

artially started this writing for 30 days challenge so that I would write about books. I find that I’ve discovered some of my favorite books by accident — and by putting this out there, I hope that some of you might discover your next book too! Crying in H Mart…

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Jan 28, 2022

How an Inexperienced Widow Led the Washington Post to Success

I first came across Katharine Graham in Will Thorndike’s book ‘The Outliers’ about the best capital allocators. Other great capital allocators include Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. When done right, capital allocation creates enormous value like nothing else does. When she took over the Post, Katherine Graham had not worked…

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Jan 27, 2022

The Execution IS the Idea

There is a belief that success revolves around having great ideas. Of course, everyone knows that execution matters too, but this is often a secondary consideration. This is a complete myth. Starting businesses, again and again, has taught me that the execution IS the idea. …

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Jan 26, 2022

How to (try to) stop taking arguments and disagreements personally.

For many years, I felt like I had no control over my emotions. I was extremely reactive to disagreements and arguments. Forgiving and forgetting do come relatively easily to me, but in the heat of the moment, it can be extremely hard for me to think clearly. …

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Jan 25, 2022

On 100-hour decisions vs 5-minute decisions

There are 2 fundamental types of decisions — 100-hour decisions and 5-minute decisions. If you’re not actively categorizing your decision-making into these buckets, chances are that you’re treating your decisions incorrectly. When given the chance, the brain really only wants to spend 1–10 conscious hours thinking about complicated problems. 100…

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Jan 24, 2022

How to Think from First Principles

One of my pet peeves is when people say ‘we do it this way because that’s the way it’s always been done’. Apart from traditional recipes, I don’t think it makes sense to approach problems this way. Instead, I try to rely on first-principles thinking, which I first learned about…

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Jan 22, 2022

Disneyland was built in 366 days. Here are some other examples of teams moving fast, passionately.

Projects don’t need to take a lifetime. The faster you can launch, the faster you can see if there’s product market fit or not, and move on or double down as necessary. Here are some of my favorite examples (from @patrickc) of teams that moved fast on projects that could…

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Jan 21, 2022

Paralyzed by choices? Help your brain out with this trick.

If you’re anything like me, this will have happened to you many times in your life. You’ve just sat down to try to sort through a bunch of options — you’ve come up with over 20 — but having to choose one out of 20 suddenly seems impossible. …

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Jan 19, 2022

How to Have Better Conversations.

I love to debate — but I used to think that the only point was to convince or be convinced. To my chagrin, I thought I was advocating for ‘open discussion’ but more recently have realized that my need to convince the other side often leads to extremely heated and…

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Jan 18, 2022

Four novels that completely changed my perspective recently

Apeirogon by Colum McCann — one of my favorite reads in 2021 a novel based on the unlikely real-life friendship between an Israeli father and a Palestinian father who both lost their daughters at a young age. …

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Katerina Yip

Katerina Yip

5 Followers

Venture builder at fail ventures.

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