Gallant MacDonald
As you may have heard, we have entered a new chapter at Gallant MacDonald, and we couldn’t be more excited about what the future holds. We are looking forward to many more months of Insights to come!
What I Wish Someone had Told Me
We have linked to some of Sam Altman’s more reflective pieces in the past. This one feels particularly relevant.
It is easier for a team to do a hard thing that really matters than to do an easy thing that doesn’t really matter; audacious ideas motivate people.
What it means to be a serious person
”Serious” is a term that falls into the “know it when you see it” camp. A life well lived usually includes at least one area where an individual is extremely serious, and likely some where they aren’t.
The cruellest trick that twenty-first century societies are playing on young adults is to make it harder for them to be, or feel, serious. By allowing the price of having a family and owning a home to rise so steeply, we’ve blocked the most popular route to a serious life. It’s harder to feel that you’re serious when you live with your parents.
Time is a thief
There is a last time for everything. This is a reminder to savour the simple moments.
We’re all running out of time. Every day.
America’s Reality Distortion Machine
A characteristically optimistic view of the world for Gallant MacDonald. The world feels divided, but that feeling is magnified by media vs. being reflective of on the ground reality.
If you get a bunch of normal people at random and put them in a room together and chat about issues, there’s a lot more convergence than you might imagine.
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