Mark Zuckerberg

Westcity
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Abraham Kim
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Thoughts of another drink swarmed the young man who sat at the table near the window at a cafe off Baker Ave. Usually the slim, hoodied figure got more coffees than his brain and nerves needed because he was procrastinating on some pending school deadline.

But this time around there was...
learn?
By living.

Everyone you admire for having learned something they learned by doing and living a life.

like 
Mark Zuckerberg
learned by building 
Facebook
  -- you know the old school 
PHP
one ?

Naval Ravikant
learned by founding startups and getting screwed out of deals and this led to him and Nivi founding Angellist and so on.

Reading books and taking classes is like eating and urinating. Sure they are required in learning and doing things... but they're not the thing. they're just necessities.

If you want to learn x go live a life of a person who needs x
Abraham Kim

Westcity
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Abraham Kim
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Before my friend died, he always talked about starting up his own  catering business. He really liked to cook, and he really liked to serve others his food, no matter how broke he was, I'll give him that, but I don't think there was any support structure for him to...
Tobi
Also really cool to watch both of our tastes in heroes change. Like I never understood why you looked up to 
Mark Zuckerberg
until I read more about your take on 
Nigeria
. 

I used to look up to 
DHH
a ton. Still find him a great resource but nowadays I look up to 
Taylor Otwell
 more. Although I do find myself looking less up to people themselves and more their practice/values/etc.... disentangling the admirable traits from the human identity.
Abraham Kim