“Form your LLC in Wyoming to avoid California taxes.”
California taxes where the business is conducted, not where it’s filed.
Live in CA, run it from your CA apartment, and you register that Wyoming LLC as a foreign LLC and pay the $800 anyway.
Plus Wyoming’s fees.
Congrats, you now pay two states instead of one.
“Follow your passion” is the worst advice ever given to a builder.
Passion doesn’t ship. Discipline on the days you feel nothing ships.
I’ve built more in the weeks I didn’t feel like it than in the weeks I was “inspired.”
Trading taught me more about building a company than any business book.
Cut losers fast. Let winners run. Most of your effort produces nothing — a few things produce everything. Survive long enough to catch them.
Same game. Different screen.
Your guard log is one database edit away from “perfect.” Every client knows it — that’s why disputes never end.
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I had a young man stop me in the street when I was walking who said he followed my advice made $80,000 in sales but stopped because it wasn’t his passion.
He asked me “what should I do with my life?”
I didn’t have time to answer him then so I’ll say this:
Most people think following your passion means doing something you love, but that’s not true. It means loving the outcome enough that you were willing to endure suffering in order to achieve it.
And it’s usually because people don’t understand what the word passion means. Passion comes from the Latin root of passio, which means suffering and endurance. Ex: the Passion of Christ (his crucifixion story).
So of course the young man who stopped me didn’t love taking sales calls all day. Almost no one does. But no matter what your “passion “is you’re going to have to do way more stuff that you hate in order to pursue it. So thinking about the percentage of your day you dedicate to doing things you love is a very poor measure of whether or not you are pursuing your passion.
And I think simply clarifying that for people who are on their search for what they want to do with their life might make all the difference between picking a goal worth suffering for vs jumping from fleeting interest to fleeting interest until the work becomes hard and never really making progress.
If you aren’t willing to suffer for it, your love is weak.
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Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact
book summary in 4k
Anthropic Engineer Andrej Karpathy:
"The biggest mistake in AI right now - people are forcing agents to work instead of mastering the model first
We made that mistake in 2016 at OpenAI - It cost us 5 years "
what Karpathy actually means:
step 1 → stop forcing your agent to do everything, understand the model underneath first
step 2 → demos are easy - products take a decade. self-driving proved it - if you skip the foundation, everything breaks
step 3 → the agent is not the product. the foundation is. build that - and agents emerge on their own
"you building agents right now - you're at the forefront. not OpenAI. not DeepMind. you "
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