99.9% of the world is completely unaware what is going to hit them in <5yrs: incredibly powerful, cheap intelligence. The way we are all addicted to information, glued to our screen 24x7, we are about to get addicted to hyper-intelligence. Work is growing 10x from here, unf, not reduce.
3 Important Rules for Success:
- Always remember that nobody knows anything.
- The only way to figure out if your idea is a good one is to try it.
- If you don’t start, you’ll never get anywhere.
Don’t forget.
When I was twenty-one years old, fresh out of college and about to start my first job, my father gave me a handwritten list of instructions.
I've passed these same rules on to my own children and the original copy hangs next to my bathroom mirror.
1. When you write something intended to be read by an important person, go through it and cut every unnecessary word.
2. The reader of anything you publish is an important person.
Ditch financial goals.
I see a lot of people who want to make $$$ in XYZ days, fail, repeat, fail again, burn out, and quit.
You can't control the market, so stop gambling with your happiness.
Instead, do what you CAN control:
- ship 3 startups in 3 months
- write 1 tweet a day for 30 days
- exercise 30 minutes daily
At the end of each day, you're winning, regardless of the outcome.
That's how you stay in the game long enough to win big.
People love to say “fail fast.” But what they really mean is “learn fast.”
And the learning only happens when you’re honest about why something didn’t work.