Yesterday, I Learned

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Every day, I make countless mistakes.

Of those that are repeated, I try to write down a ‘how to’ guide for how to avoid them in the future.

I only intended to write these guides for myself.

But, I’m realizing that I’m not that unique.

So I write these lessons publicly in case it can help other fellow Friendly Ambitious Nerds.

Typically, I write these lessons by understanding 3 important components:

Goal: What questions should I have answered upfront?
Best Practice: What are good examples?
Inversion: How do I avoid stupidity?

Have a topic request? Fill out the form below and email me at eddy AT yesterdayIlearned DOT org

Professional Lessons

I’ve worked and learned from a variety of different roles and industries within the “business world”. Here’s what my official vs. unofficial resume shows:

My official resume:

Education: Graduated with honors from Harvard College
Finance: Worked at Credit Suisse (Financial Sponsors Group) and Bain Capital
Entrepreneurship: Co-founded a mobile-app based peer-to-peer marketplace for 100k+ users in Brazil
Venture Capital: Founding member of a growth equity firm, and led investments into SoFi (NASDAQ: SOFI), Hotel Tonight (Acquired by Airbnb), and Frontier Car Group (Acquired by OLX/Naspers)
Consulting: Got promoted to Engagement Manager in ~2 years and worked at McKinsey for ~6 years

My unofficial resume:

Education: Tbh, have no idea how I got in…let alone survive for 4 years
Finance: Got really good at excel modeling and staying up at night
Entrepreneurship: That 100K number is just downloads and starting a business was brutal, especially in a foreign country
Venture Capital: Realized that the job of great VCs is a sales job to convince great entrepreneurs to take their money, and to be honest, I didn’t love the idea of begging people to take my money.
Consulting: Learned how to learn, lead and communicate. But at the end of the day, availability = ability → not the life I wanted.

Here is the collections of lessons that I’ve learned:

How to figure out what you want to do with your life

Personal Lessons

I’ve lived for almost 1 billion seconds. Here is a random collection of lessons I’ve learned through them:

How to gift someone who doesn’t want anything

Reflections

Here are some random thoughts that I have that I’ll write down here:

Words I like

Random Projects

**Oneday: The First 500 Nights -** I spent over 600 nights in hotels while at McKinsey, and collected every single one. Ultimately, I created my first “key-llage” and made it into an NFT

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By Eddy Lee

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General Information

Previous Alias

Status

Affiliation

Strengths

Weaknesses:

Disco Belly

Alive

Friendly Ambitious Nerd

Identifying Arbitrage

Consistent Experimentation

Lifelong Growth Mindset

Avoids Confrontation

Terrible Aesthetic Taste