MASTERY STARTS WITH DROWNING.

The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability.

for ~30 yrs, a lot of career capital of a knowledge worker (esp in leadership) was basically: - access to information - ability to synthesize scarce data - coordination across silos - gatekeeping decisions that arbitrage collapses when information becomes ambient, searchable,

Having Saturdays off started as a one off experiment, but having time off to read, write and just reflect without any screens is insanely valuable & surprisingly productive too

The gap between who you are and who you want to be is closed by what you do when you don't feel like it.

Co-hosting this one with Sean, keeping it curated and fun

"We never think we're in the good old days, but the good old days are now."

Not rushing to automate things is counter intuitive nowadays, but I found it the best thing to do. Not just cause you need to "validate demand first". He summed it here as "scaling your misunderstandings", and that's the essence. In practice it's tons of micro things in the

IRL in the AI-era >>>>>>

when running a startup, operational stuff is largely now automatable or delegable. but managing emotional states is still definitively not.

Entrepreneurship is more about stamina than it is about genius

Brian Chesky and Travis are definitely some of my favorite founders. Building something so big, novel, and competitive requires a different breed of founder.

Shabbats FTW

they don’t want you to know about this:

The world belongs to the energetic

Time boxing tasks and competing with yourself to beat it with zero distractions. Yes priorities on what to work on, applying leverage, working hard etc. too But deep focus and rigorous timelines (day to day too) are overlooked.

It's often because when you have a deep drive to “impress yourself” and not others, it's "easy" to tolerate any criticism. Also more likely to be an independent thinker as a by product of that

"Muting the world" so you can focus, build and ignore all the doom and competition has never been more important.

It's not a goal, but it is a milestone for a business to choose not to work with a client.

Cadence + tone of voice.