Andrew

It’s the years that you own and you earned them

[Andrew @andrew_______w]

This can probably be said for podcasts too. On the third listen of @balajis on @tferriss and listened many times to @naval on @joerogan ... You pick up some missed nuances and side comments that connect dots later.

[Naval @naval]

Read the Best 100 Books Over and Over Again https://t.co/KVnv2eOEJB

[Andrew @andrew_______w]

@van00sa What are the best clawd accounts?

[Andrew @andrew_______w]

@dhh An Italian gas station prosciutto and cheese roll is better than any deli in Australia

[Andrew @andrew_______w]

@businessbarista AI

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

James Dyson dropped the tightest 7-minute product launch you’ll ever see and somehow found new ways to innovate a vacuum.

The Dyson PencilVac FluffyCone is:

▫️world’s thinnest vacuum (38mm, 1.8kg)
▫️has special cones so hair doesn’t get stuck (unreal lol)
▫️new design so cleaner head can go right against walls (also up in cupboards and under sofas)
▫️360-degree illumination so you can see all dirt
▫️powerful new motor entirely in handle (with new dispensing system)

I know about this because my wife watches Dyson demo vids like they are Peak Steve Jobs Appe keynotes.

She sent it and said “we are definitely getting this when it’s out” to add to the fan, OG vacuum, hair dryer and air purifier. Ugh.

[Andrew @andrew_______w]

@businessbarista @thesamparr CommaPalooza

[Andrew @andrew_______w]

@patrickc Interesting you use it to sleep. For me it is focus and alertness. Did you start out trying it for sleep specifically or when you did it you found it had calming effects and then tried it for sleep?

[Garrett Scott 🕳 @thegarrettscott]

Every saturday morning for the last 6 years, I watch this obscure video.
It's Jeff Bezos talking about leadership, but really, it's the most succinct blueprint for how to achieve greatness I have ever found.
You should watch it often, but I summarized it here: (thread, sry)

[Andrew @andrew_______w]

@sbxr Don’t be a dick

[Andrew @andrew_______w]

@JohnSchaitel @greg16676935420 Thank you. Correct. And would keep overflowing so 2,4,5 wouldn’t get a drop.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In 2016, Pharrell Williams visited an N.Y.U. music production class to critique student songs.

After he listened to a song called “Alaska” by a student named Maggie Rogers, Pharrell said, “Wow. I have zero, zero, zero notes for that.”

“And I'll tell you why” he said. Because...

“You're doing your own thing. It's singular. It's like when the Wu-Tang Clan came out—no one could really judge it. You either liked it or you didn't, but you couldn't compare it to anything else.

And that is such a special quality, and all of us possess that ability.”

Takeaway 1:

The source of your power, Robert Greene says, is your uniqueness.

We say of genius, as Pharrell said of Rogers' song:

"They're 1 of a kind."

"They're singular."

So are you, Robert likes to point out: No one has ever had your DNA, your experiences, your perspective.

Embrace your uniqueness. Express it in your work.

Takeaway 2:

The video with Pharrell went viral & Maggie Rogers, seemingly overnight, was a pop star.

But…

Rogers started playing music when she was 7. She started songwriting a few years later. In high school, she attended courses at the Berklee College of Music. During her senior year, she recorded her first album, which is what got her accepted to the N.Y.U. music school and the opportunity to play one of her songs in front of Pharrell.

As Rogers later said of the viral video, “My many, many years of focus and hard work got kind of packaged into a Cinderella story.”

Ryan Holiday's line is, "All success is a lagging indicator."

All success is a function of the previous work put in.

“When a day’s writing goes well,” Ryan writes, “it’s a lagging indicator of hours and hours spent researching and thinking…Hitting a personal record on the bench press is a lagging indicator of a lot of discipline and hard work. Receiving a promotion is a lagging indicator of a lot of quality work. Delivering a keynote with confidence is a lagging indicator of a lot of preparation.”

Getting packaged as a Cinderalla story is a lagging indicator of many, many years of focus and hard work.

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“It seems to me that each of us expressing our own originality is the essence of our art and professionalism.” — Jim Henson

Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

[Andrew @andrew_______w]

@PicturesFoIder 27 + 40 = 67
+ 8 = 75

[Nathalie Vincent @awlilnatty]

Ikea’s celebration of being the second-best place in a household, has to be one of the most original insights I’ve seen executed in years.

[Andrew @andrew_______w]

@MorningBrew 🤣🤯🤯

[Andrew @andrew_______w]

@_TommyMason @OfficeTothe JJJJony

[Andrew @andrew_______w]

@jethrojcohen I have muted ‘10x’ for this reason

[Andrew @andrew_______w]

@stylebender And broke the 4th arrow. Surplus to requirements. @stylebender

[Andrew @andrew_______w]

@AmandaMGoetz @KasparCMS @jappleby Gappleby

[Andrew @andrew_______w]

@Adam_CV_Miller @json_hughes Just a couple of dinners or nights out 🤣

[Andrew @andrew_______w]

@FitFounder @WHOOP

[Andrew @andrew_______w]

@IAmPascio 👋