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Don’t Follow Your Passion | Ben Horowitz’s Advice for New Graduates

aired Jul 06, 2026 · 19.0m
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Summary

Thinking for yourself sounds both simple and trivial, but in reality it's extremely difficult and it's profound. As human beings, we want to be liked.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, idea, world, including: As human beings, we want to be liked.

Key takeaways
  1. 01And I remember when I kind of first got the first clue of what I might do, I was taking a class over in the mud building, which somebody was telling me today
  2. 02And they were talking about how he had proven that if you built a machine that was what he called a Turing machine, that it was theoretically impossible to build a machine that was
  3. 03And one of my friends said, wow, that's the stupidest thing I ever heard And I like why He said you at Columbia University That like a trade You can learn that at DeVry They teach
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