15 Leonardo da Vinci: The Biography — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2017-11-17
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“And I think that's extremely important now when you're trying to think of, like, if you want to design a product or…”
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Focus
“You just expose yourself to a lot of things, and like Elon Musk says, let the computation happen, and then you'll be…”
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People
“And then later on, people would cover David's genitals with, like, a bronze leaf.”
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Persistence
“But what they just said, how he, he would go back months or even years later, something I learned about the Mona…”
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Capital
“So this is something that I've just, uh, only in the last few years realized, that, um, if you work all the…”
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