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The Recipe for Success? "Amble doses of pain and suffering" (Jensen Huang)

Have you read about Jensen Huang's "Top 5 Things" strategy?  (I may be butchering the name.)

He regularly has everyone in his company send him a short email directly, listing the top 5 things on their mind, and he reads through them all.  It helps sort through the bureaucracy that ends up distorting information signals, and lets him cut directly to what people are thinking at every organizational level in the company.

Very smart.

> There's something both astonishingly inspirational and dubious about such post hoc claims to success. Yes, from the hindsight point of view of extreme success, I'm sure it feels like "I just worked hard"; the ex ante position of all the other people working roughly as hard and not succeeding, a little harder to account for.

Yeah, hard work is necessary, but you also must have extra doses of both talent and luck to get to the top as he has.