Before the Paypal mafia, there was the Fairchild Semiconductor mafia.

You will never be:

Seven favourite passages from the book.

Passages I noted from Keith Dowman’s translation of the book.

“Thinking of the key confirms the prison.”

Last year I had tea with a friend’s father.

Naval: “You can get to whatever you want to. You just have to care about it badly enough.”

Three favorite excerpts from the book.

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Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.

Excerpts I noted from Krishnamurti in Freedom from the Known:

“The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another […]”

Let the breath come and go as it pleases.

Rainn Wilson and Kevin Hart make the choice that defines them as artists and performers: they stop pretending to be what they think the audience wants to see.

“Everything I do is aligned in making Canada and particularly Toronto a more competitive space for tech companies.”

Alex Norman is the CEO of AngelList Canada, a co-founder at TechToronto, and an early stage VC via his fund, N49P.

The hardest thing was telling his friends that he wasn’t coming back. For the next year, he’s 2600 miles away in Silicon Valley.

How we perceive other people reflects who we are.

As life goes on, there’s the sense that we enroll in the next phase of our lives as if the whole thing is a regularly scheduled program.

Some has already escaped, sliding between your fingers, no matter how tightly you clench them together.

If you’re present, there is no concept of past, future – or present.