A few weeks ago I wrote about how, if you want to succeed, you need to be willing and able to Get Shit Done (GSD). And despite the amount of abuse I seem to give accountants, a very nice one called Peter emailed me reminding me of a Nassim Taleb quote: “Only in recent history has ‘working hard’ signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse, and, mostly, sprezzatura.” Ah. What a fantastic quote. I’ll come back to Taleb. But first, a couple of Friday evenings ago, one of my MIT friends (who has also happened to just…

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