Give Me A Lever
Akira the Don, Naval Ravikant
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Fortunes require leverage Business leverage comes from capital, people And products with no marginal Cost of replication Give me a lever long enough and a place To stand and I will move the Earth Give me a lever long enough and a place To stand and I will move the Earth Give me a lever long enough and a place To stand and I will move the Earth Give me a lever long enough And a place to stand (and I will move the Earth) Leverage is critical We all know what leverage is when we Use a seesaw or a lever We understand how that works physically But I think what our brains aren't really Well-evolved to comprehend is How much leverage Is possible in modern society and what The newest forms of leverage are The oldest form of leverage is labor Which is people working for you So instead of me lifting rocks I can have 10 people lift rocks And just by my guidance on Where the rock should go A lot more rocks get moved Than I could do myself Everybody understands this because We're evolved to Understand the labor form of leverage Give me a lever long enough and a place To stand and I will move the Earth Give me a lever long enough and a place To stand and I will move the Earth Give me a lever long enough and a place To stand and I will move the Earth Give me a lever long enough And a place to stand (and I will move the Earth) And so what happens is society overvalues Labor as a form of leverage This is why your parents are Impressed when you get a Promotion and you have lots of People working underneath you This is why when a lot of naive people, when You tell them about your Company, they'll say "How many people work there?" They'll use that As a way to establish credibility They're trying to measure how much leverage And impact you actually have We just automatically assume that More people is better But I would argue that this is the worst Form of leverage that you could possibly use Managing other people is incredibly messy It requires tremendous leadership skills You're one short hop from a mutiny or getting Eaten or torn apart by the mob It's incredibly competed over Entire civilizations have been destroyed Over this fight For example, communism, Marxism Is all about the battle Between capital and labor, "Das Kapital", that's labor, right? So it's kind of a trap So you really wanna stay out Of labor based leverage You want the minimum amount of people Working with you that are Going to allow you to use The other forms of leverage Which are much more interesting Give me a lever long enough and a place To stand and I will move the Earth Give me a lever long enough and a place To stand and I will move the Earth Give me a lever long enough and a place To stand and I will move the Earth Give me a lever long enough And a place to stand (and I will move the Earth) Give me a lever long enough and I And I will move the Earth Give me a lever long enough and I And I will move the Earth Give me a lever long enough and I And I will move the Earth Give me a lever long enough and I And I will move the Earth Give me a lever long enough and I And I will move the Earth Give me a lever long enough and I And I will move the Earth
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