If you aren’t curious about it, you’ll never be good at it.

As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.

There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth. The first is the result of a decision to act—to do something. This type of mistake is made with incomplete information, as it’s impossible to have all the facts beforehand. This is to be encouraged.

Spend your youth loremaxxing. Be the person with the best stories. The wildest experiences. The one who said yes when everyone else hesitated. One day, all we’ll have left are the stories we did, or didn’t, create.

If you don’t commit to meaningful work, life will fill your time with busywork.

“Surrender the outcome. Trust your training. Focus on the performance. Forget everything else.” This is what I have been telling myself before matches since the summer. My advice is to simplify the messages you tell yourself before matches. It’s okay if they don’t make sense

Major life trap: Getting your dopamine from information gathering. Dopamine from information is a dangerous drug. Your entire life will change the moment you stop looking for more information and start acting on the information you already have. Get your dopamine from action.

Nobody actually wants or prefers to take shortcuts, people just feel like they have to, or they're conditioned to from a place of fear Immersing oneself in a craft, being present with outcome independence, this is default and effortless human nature. It only changes when you

This year, I wish you less — less information, less food, less entertainment, less communication, less stimulation. You already have too much of all that, and it stands in the way of your serenity, health, sleep, and creativity. Merry Christmas! ☦️

Investing in your skills is the wisest decision you can make for your career. They compound tax free, can't be taken away from you, and become more valuable the more you stack them.

Vikram Mahendra AI can code for you and design for you but it’s not creative or directed without you. You should find problems that you’re genuinely interested in, things that you’re genuinely curious about, and then use AI to learn and solve. Curiosity + Understanding = Insight.

Vikram Mahendra The real capital is understanding.

You can tell how well someone knows a topic by whether they explain the fundamentals on a first principles level or if they just spew a bunch of tactics they heard on the internet.

It's so important to own every aspect of your life. If someone asks what you do, you have no problem telling them. Like you should be able to say yes this is my job, my business, my side hustle without resistance. Interests, hobbies, lifestyle, you're not afraid of anyone knowing

On Scott Adams. A man finds, to his astonishment, that he exists. After the elation of childhood wears off, he asks, who am I, why am I here, how does this work? These are hard questions, so after a brief struggle, he selects a readymade answer and goes about the motions of

The more you wait, the harder it gets. The more you act, the easier it feels.

Fighting is so much about your nervous system it's crazy. While cardio is important, after your nervous system is calibrated and you're efficient, you don't need THAT much endurance. Unless you freak out, which is what most people do when punches start flying. Then they get

the trick is to remember you’re alive at the exact moment the age of AI is turning on. you're not watching it from the sidelines, you're not reading about it years later etc you're actually here, with access, tools, and a blank canvas at the greatest shift in history to ship

Good taste is judgement refined through creation and criticism - criticism not just from flawed proxies like people and awards, but criticism from nature and free markets.

While the world is a gold mine, you need to go digging in other people’s heads to unearth riches. Questions are your pickaxes and competitive advantage. World-class performers don’t have superpowers. The rules they’ve crafted for themselves allow the bending of reality to such