Overrated: Accountability partners Underrated: Creativity partners Accountability partners punish for not sticking to a version of a future you can’t control. Creativity partners act as a sounding board & reasoning check for growing organically from your creative DNA.

"Fake it till you make it," is good advice, because the person you're "faking" to is yourself. You think you're faking, but what you're doing is real. Next thing you know, you believe in yourself.

Advice for my 25-year-old self: believe in your ideas, especially the weird ones.

Look mom, I wrote a book!! So excited to finally reveal the cover and that Tiny Experiments is now available for pre-order!! 🥳🙌✨

Perfectionism is refusing to start the journey until you’ve reached your destination.

When I write a shitty first draft, intending to improve upon it later, nine times out of ten, I later realize it turned out pretty good. By trying to write shit, I’ve tricked myself into writing well.

In a moment of rejection, you can either blame someone else, or look more closely at yourself, and ask why. Rejection makes you look harder for the right opportunity.

Failure is like beer. Some of your most interesting and memorable experiences and even successes will be thanks to having a few too many failures.

You can’t leave what you’ve got for something better. Better doesn’t come unless you’ve cleared the space to build it.

“How does it feel?” is a useful question. Not just in the obvious emotional contexts, such as: -Considering a romantic partner -Making a life decision -Giving an apology But also in business contexts: -Negotiating a deal -Writing ad copy -Pricing an offering

Have private likes on X changed your liking behavior?

Bureaucrats are so resistant to change that to finally use technology efficiently, people had to literally be dying otherwise.

The approximate value generated per-minute, over time, by task performed. Accurate?

I live in paradise. This lemon literally rolled down my driveway and knocked on my front door.

Some are represented by their degrees, other by their titles. As a creator, you’re represented by what you’ve made.

Some ideas are white swans: They're likely to be mildly successful. Some ideas are black swans: They'll probably fail, but may be wildly successful. Others are gray swans. Choose wisely.

90% of discipline is making desired actions easy and undesired actions hard.

AI generated art always has these vibes...

We all have the same amount of time. But you’ll have more time if you master your mental energy.

All day I ask: "Do I feel dopamine building up to motivate me to do this?" If not, then "why?"