Derek Andersen

The hardest lesson NFL MVP Steve Young ever had to learn.

"Fear-based thinking is a liar. I was afraid of failure, so much so that I paid this price so that I could have success. I learned as an older person, that's a fallacy. That's fraudulent."

"I'm not going to pay for success with my worry and fretting. Man, fame is a thief. Fear-based thinking is a thief. There's a lot of thieves in life."

Someone else’s tragedy shouldn’t be your jackpot.

I asked @mckaycoppins where gambling is headed, and got a warning about prediction markets:

“It's that it takes life-and-death things, real important issues, and turns them into Las Vegas table games.”

“It turns them into vehicles to make money through gambling, and I think that's fundamentally dehumanizing in a way, and just bad for our culture and bad for our souls.”

Once the dust settles on the China AI issues, we’ll see a lot of companies on this list losing HUGE revenue that was indirectly coming straight from China. Everyone (investors/ceos/employees) knew about this. It was easy money and almost no one stopped it.

Overheard extremely connected Silicon Valley friend say tonight:

“Jensen made so many people, companies, and investors rich, now publicly he has almost no friends. What does that say?”

You can lose your purpose trying to keep your power.

I asked @mckaycoppins why people in Washington start compromising their values:

“I think most people who go to Washington go there because they want to do good. They feel like they have something to contribute. They want to serve the public, and that’s why they go.”

“And all of a sudden, you start to orient your life around your job, your position, and the trappings of it, and the status it gives you, and the way people treat you when you walk into a room, and you don’t want to lose it.”