If you consistently feel the counterproductive need for volume and doing lots of stuff, put these on a Post-it note: Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but

The typical response to an overwhelming workload is to put in longer hours. Don't do that. hbr.org/2019/10/how-to…

Love this. Every entrepreneur should read this!

Prevent work for work’s sake, and to do the minimum necessary for maximum effect (“minimum effective load”). Distribute recovery periods and adventures (mini-retirements) throughout life on a regular basis and recognize that inactivity is not the goal. Doing that which excites

An email from Coach Sommer I revisit often: Hi Tim, Patience. Far too soon to expect strength improvements. Strength improvements [for a movement like this] take a minimum of 6 weeks. Any perceived improvements prior to that are simply the result of improved synaptic

This guy's take on "the gym" is outstanding! 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Have a listen!😂😂😂

Advice to my 21 year old self: 1. status is rented. self-respect is owned. 2. most advice assumes you know what you want. the real challenge is figuring that out. 3. the most important personal finance metric isn't net worth, it's "worry time." how many minutes per day do you

the new startup playbook looks NOTHING like the old one: – most of your team will be part-time contractors, creators, and ai agents – your first $1m will come from niching down. your next $10m will come from tastefully scaling out – one agent spins out 50 longtail SEO pages from

"The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup can get the distribution before the incumbent can build the innovation."

Enough said

Most people ask terrible questions and wonder why conversations feel so uninspired. Here are unusual questions that people asked me that led to more meaningful connection:

George Soros broke down the mindset that built a $25 billion fortune:

i thought i was having a hard time but i think hughsey might be going through a worse one

People fall in love with ideas because ideas never fight back. Execution does. It exposes your blind spots, your patience, your habits and your excuses. Most founders learn more from the first week of doing than the first year of imagining.

sat next to a guy on a flight who smelled like old money rolex. tailored suit. reading a physical newspaper like it was 1987. figured he was some finance executive or inherited wealth. we got talking. I mentioned I sell stuff online. he put down his newspaper. "what kind of

Nick Saban never talked about winning - he talked about process over outcome. His teams won because they focused on doing their job at the highest level. They won because of their systems, actions, and mindset. How Nick Saban defines process over outcome. (📌Bookmark it)

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think this demo is what Dario means when he says “50% of entry level white-collar jobs will be gone by 2030”

I'm convinced that the biggest vertical SaaS companies of the AI era will not be vertical. They will be horizontal AI harnesses that let the customer build the vertical themselves. For my entire career, vertical SaaS meant the software company learned the industry and built