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Julien Newman

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I’m an entrepreneur with an interest in philosophy

What I’m working on

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I’m part of the team which is building Goodlaw

We let immigrants easily get quality legal advice. Goodlaw combines human lawyers with AI which means immigrants get a dramatically better service for exponentially cheaper

We’re super early but check out our

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Before founding Goodlaw I worked on Dedicated.ai which let businesses get all of their employees to help with sales. Dedicated.ai was funded by top VCs including Village Global - the VC backed by Reid Hoffman

Check out the

Bitzscaling Podcast⁠

which I co-host with Chris Yeh - co-author with Reid Hoffman of the book Blitzscaling

I’m involved in a lightweight manner with the

Princeton Project in Philosophy & Religion⁠

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In the past, I worked as a software developer. But I don’t consider myself to be technical anymore

Today, I’m a very excellent generalist. Being a generalist lets me assemble better teams because I can fill most gaps in most teams. Which lets folks focus on the tasks they’re most excited to work on

Work style

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The team at Goodlaw works faster than others

Get Shit Done → When something is supposed to happen. It just happens

Right now → Action items are EOH (end of hour) or EOD

Only Big Shit → We pursue things which might be huge. Even if they’re unlikely to work

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Festina Lente (or make haste slowly) was the motto of Augustus and of the Medicis

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The Medicis painted frescos of a turtle with a sail all over Florence to symbolize Festina Lente

The Medicis painted frescos of a turtle with a sail all over Florence to symbolize Festina Lente

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Augustus would get upset when generals rushed into battle without planning. Because this would slow progress

Often, the fastest path is hard because it feels uncomfortably slow

My best decisions

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I’m originally from Canada. The best decision I made was moving to America

Dropping out of college means I was working during the most productive years of my life

Not having a phone since 2016 has improved my quality of life

I recently left social media. Lets see if I stick with that. It’s given me a lot of time back

Texts which influenced me

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On Reading and Books by Schopenhauer⁠

→ Read less because when you read you let someone else think for you. And what’s valuable is to think original thoughts

“Whoever reads very much will gradually lose the ability to think for himself”

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The Republic by Plato⁠

→ Plato’s definition of Justice was offensive to me and in contradiction with my values. Reading The Republic was the first time that I truly understood a different perspective

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