Andrius Šliaužys

taking notes

[Andrius Šliaužys @andrius97x]

Just do you and tune out the noise.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code for life: Make peace with being unimpressive to the outside world. Drive the normal car. Wear the simple clothes. Live below your means. Stay in the committed relationship. The ability to look ordinary while building an extraordinary life is wildly underrated.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

What happens when you die:

They divide up your shit.

They summarize your life in 500-1000 words.

People who knew you less say sorry to people who knew you more.

Everyone eats, drives home, and wakes up the next day and goes to work.

Whatever you’re worried about won’t be in those 500 words.

You can dare greatly or not at all, but you’re gonna die either way.

Might as well squeeze every motherfucking drop out.

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk watched Starship explode during a test and didn't flinch. The engineers around him were devastated. He picked up his phone, called the team, and said 4 words that defined how SpaceX handles failure differently than any organization on earth.

"That was awesome. Congrats."

The rocket had just disintegrated. Millions of dollars of hardware scattered into the sky. Months of work gone in seconds. And the CEO was congratulating his team.

To an outsider this looks insane. You just lost a rocket. Why are you celebrating.

To SpaceX it makes perfect sense. They didn't lose a rocket. They gained data that no simulation could have produced. They learned exactly where the system breaks under real conditions. That data is worth more than the hardware.

This is the SpaceX philosophy distilled into one moment. Failure is not a setback. Failure is a data point. You build, you test, it breaks, you learn exactly why it broke, you fix it, you test again. The cycle is the product.

NASA spent decades trying to make sure rockets never failed. SpaceX spends weeks making sure they fail fast enough to iterate before the competition catches up.

The engineers who were devastated that day went back to work the next morning with the exact telemetry they needed to solve problems they didn't know existed until the rocket showed them.

4 words from a CEO who understands that the only real failure is the test you were too afraid to run.

Most leaders punish failure and get teams that play it safe. Musk celebrates failure and gets teams that push boundaries nobody else will touch. The culture starts with what the leader says in the worst moment. And in his worst moment he said congrats.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It is humbling to consider that if we harness just 1 millionth of the Sun’s power for AI, that will be much more than a million times the intelligence of all of humanity

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Jeff Bezos reveals the simple phrase that saved him countless arguments running Amazon

"Disagree and commit is a really important principle that saves a lot of arguing"

"One of my direct reports would want to do something. I'd think it was a bad idea. We'd go back and forth and I'd often say, you know what, I don't think you're right, but I'm going to gamble with you"

"You're closer to the ground truth than I am. I've known you for 20 years, you have great judgment"

"At least then you've made a decision and I'm agreeing to commit to that decision. I'm not going to be second guessing it, sniping at it, or saying I told you so"

"I'm going to try actively to help make sure it works. That's a really important teammate behavior"

[Jøhnathan @Heavenly_Race_]

Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down.

It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems.

A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means:

Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad."

Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language.

Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed.

Both walk away frustrated.

Both have wasted each others time.

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

8 Greatest Laws I know at 40, I wish I knew at 20:

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[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

Etiquette (updated):

- Never respond to a compliment with a compliment
- The correct response to being told something you already know isn’t “I know.” It’s “You’re right”
- Hold doors open for women, but go through revolving doors first
- Gift randomly
- When you meet someone for the 2nd time, remind them what your name is
- Don't make transformative modifications to menu items
- Never split a check
- Facial hair should appear deliberate
- Don't ask someone what their job is, or where they went to school. It's lazy and boring
- Always open a car door for a woman, but if you're sharing the back seat, enter first, and scoot
- Don't tell people when it's your birthday
- Respond to text messages promptly
- Don't address someone by a nickname unless you know them well
- No hats or sunglasses inside
- Never show that you're impressed
- Log off a Zoom if you have poor reception
- Walk with the flow, or at the pace of the woman you're with
- Using a phone is like a yawn; it's contagious. Put it away when you're with other people
- Say "Thank you" even when texting, not "Thanks" or "Thx"
- Always carry cash
- Name-dropping is awful
- Stand up to shake hands
- If you offer to help, never quit until the job is done
- Eat slowly
- Be patient with bartenders; there's no line for drinks at your refrigerator 
- Don't leave voicemails, or if necessary, make them brief
- Tip more than you should
- Don't ask to trade seats on a plane, unless you’re offering an equal or better seat
- If you want to buy a woman a drink, ask her permission
- Don't say "yes" when you mean "no"
- Get on and off an elevator last
- Don't cancel plans on the day of
- Never admonish or criticize a partner in the presence of others

[Moral Philosophy @ML_Philosophy]

life is too short to be chasing any energy that ain't mutual.

[Steve · Millionaire Habits @SteveOnSpeed]

People don't just "have" time.

They *make* time.

- For family
- For health
- For fitness

If it's important enough, then you will ALWAYS have the time.

[Philosophy Of Life @PhilOfLife_]

It’s crazy how having a good heart can be your biggest downfall.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Plastic recycling is a “dead-end street."

That quote…unbelievably…is from @Greenpeace.

In my new video, we debunk the recycling religion.

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

The measure of a man is the calmness in his eyes when everything around him and everything inside of him is broken.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

“It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time. Give yourself permission to be a beginner.”​
— Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

If you show no interest, people will move on.

Stop playing hard to get; in real life, no one has time for your mind games.

Either bring value into people’s lives, or get out of the way.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Skill only looks like luck to people who don’t have skill.

[Steve Burns @SJosephBurns]

"The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing." - Warren Buffett.