Damon Deru @dderu - Twitter Profile

@thesamparr @HamptonFounders What a dope experience! Hampton is seriously the best group of entrepreneurs and human beings I’ve ever had the privilege of being around.

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over 2 years ago

Genius hack!

Ian Nuttall

@iannuttall

over 2 years ago

Filtering the LLMs with ease on Upwork thanks to you lot and your clever little minds. Found a handful of very decent TALL stack developers too 😍

iannuttall's tweet photo. Filtering the LLMs with ease on Upwork thanks to you lot and your clever little minds.

Found a handful of very decent TALL stack developers too 😍 https://t.co/HfxZa7gXxk

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over 2 years ago

Stunning comparison…

Sean Frank

@Seanfrank

over 2 years ago

Reddit did 804m in revenue last year. Meta does 800m in revenue every 48 hours. Google does 800m in revenue every 24 hours.

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over 2 years ago

Last year was EPIC!

Utah Daily Snow

@WasatchSnow

over 2 years ago

Alta is currently at ~130% of normal snowpack to date. If they picked up another 100” of snow thru the end of February, then 200” in March, then 100” in April, they would still be almost 100” short of last year.

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almost 3 years ago

Solid advice-

Sahil Bloom

@SahilBloom

almost 3 years ago

22 truths I wish I knew at 22: 1. Most of your friends aren’t really your friends. They’re just along for the ride when it’s fun, convenient, or valuable. Your real friends are the ones who are there for you when it's none of those—when you have nothing to offer in return. 2. Your success in life is proportional to the number of difficult conversations you're willing to have. 3. Nothing good happens after midnight (especially when you've been drinking). 4. Stand up straight and look people in the eye. Two old fashioned things that stand out and never go out of style. The way you carry yourself dramatically impacts how the world will engage with you. 5. Waking up early and working out will completely change your life. One tiny action with massive ripple effects. 6. Make decisions that your 80-year old self and 10-year-old self approve of. The former cares about the long-term compounding of actions, while the latter reminds you to have some fun along the way. 7. The time you spend comparing yourself to others is much better spent investing in yourself. The only comparison worth making is to you from yesterday. 8. When you think something nice about someone, tell them right then. It's a tiny habit that will pay long lasting dividends. 9. Social media is designed to make you wish you were someone else, somewhere else, and with someone else. Curate your consumption and eliminate what brings negative emotions. 10. Prioritize spending time with people who make you better—who lift you up and make you want to grow. 11. Call your parents more often—they won't be around forever. 12. Focus on making money, you'll do ok. Focus on creating value, you'll do great. 13. The "sleep when I'm dead" mentality is broken. Great sleep is an essential ingredient of great results. 14. Give people a second chance, but never a third. If they're holding you back, cut them out of your life. 15. Trying is the coolest thing you can do. If you're going to do something, do it well. 16. Stop trying to be interesting and focus on being interested. You become interesting by being interested. 17. You'll never know what you want to be when you grow up—and that's fine. Prioritize asking great questions and having a bias for action and you'll always make it. 18. Finding the truth is more important than being right. Stop arguing to win—start listening to learn. 19. Grades won't matter much, but energy for learning will. 20. Stop worrying about what other people think of you. Most people aren't thinking about you at all. 21. Not all decisions are reversible, but most of them are. 22. Go on a few wild and crazy adventures that you'll be excited to tell your kids about someday. *** If you enjoyed this or learned something, follow me @SahilBloom for more.

SahilBloom's tweet photo. 22 truths I wish I knew at 22:

1. Most of your friends aren’t really your friends. They’re just along for the ride when it’s fun, convenient, or valuable. Your real friends are the ones who are there for you when it's none of those—when you have nothing to offer in return.

2. Your success in life is proportional to the number of difficult conversations you're willing to have.

3. Nothing good happens after midnight (especially when you've been drinking).

4. Stand up straight and look people in the eye. Two old fashioned things that stand out and never go out of style. The way you carry yourself dramatically impacts how the world will engage with you.

5. Waking up early and working out will completely change your life. One tiny action with massive ripple effects.

6. Make decisions that your 80-year old self and 10-year-old self approve of. The former cares about the long-term compounding of actions, while the latter reminds you to have some fun along the way.

7. The time you spend comparing yourself to others is much better spent investing in yourself. The only comparison worth making is to you from yesterday.

8. When you think something nice about someone, tell them right then. It's a tiny habit that will pay long lasting dividends.

9. Social media is designed to make you wish you were someone else, somewhere else, and with someone else. Curate your consumption and eliminate what brings negative emotions.

10. Prioritize spending time with people who make you better—who lift you up and make you want to grow.

11. Call your parents more often—they won't be around forever.

12. Focus on making money, you'll do ok. Focus on creating value, you'll do great.

13. The "sleep when I'm dead" mentality is broken. Great sleep is an essential ingredient of great results.

14. Give people a second chance, but never a third. If they're holding you back, cut them out of your life.

15. Trying is the coolest thing you can do. If you're going to do something, do it well.

16. Stop trying to be interesting and focus on being interested. You become interesting by being interested.

17. You'll never know what you want to be when you grow up—and that's fine. Prioritize asking great questions and having a bias for action and you'll always make it.

18. Finding the truth is more important than being right. Stop arguing to win—start listening to learn.

19. Grades won't matter much, but energy for learning will.

20. Stop worrying about what other people think of you. Most people aren't thinking about you at all.

21. Not all decisions are reversible, but most of them are.

22. Go on a few wild and crazy adventures that you'll be excited to tell your kids about someday.

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If you enjoyed this or learned something, follow me @SahilBloom for more.

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Damon Deru @DDeru

almost 3 years ago

Quote from my race instructor at the BMW driving school. Fantastic career and life advice (as well as driving advice!)

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almost 3 years ago

“Look at where you want the car to go and not where you don’t want to. Natural human behavior is to focus on obstacles and they end up driving right into the pole because that is what they are focused on. Fight that reaction and instead focus on where you want the car to go”

DDeru's tweet photo. “Look at where you want the car to go and not where you don’t want to. Natural human behavior is to focus on obstacles and they end up driving right into the pole because that is what they are focused on. Fight that reaction and instead focus on where you want the car to go” https://t.co/piX2f5eQPD

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almost 3 years ago

@anthonystich @gertsemawealth @ngertsema

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Damon Deru @DDeru

almost 3 years ago

Can I get an amen??

Sahil Bloom

@SahilBloom

almost 3 years ago

If you sit in back-to-back meetings at work, read this: Microsoft's Human Factors Lab studied 14 participants across two days of video meetings. • Day 1: 4 back-to-back 30-min meetings. • Day 2: 4 30-min meetings with 10-minute breaks in between. Participants wore EEG caps to monitor electrical activity in their brains. The results were fascinating... The two key takeaways: Takeaway 1: Back-to-Back Meetings Promote Stress Back-to-back meetings created an accumulating buildup of stress in the brain. Anticipation of transitions caused further spikes. Short breaks in between meetings allowed the brain to reset and never experience the stress buildup. Takeaway 2: Breaks Promote Performance Back-to-back meetings resulted in negative levels of frontal alpha symmetry, a brain state connected to lower levels of engagement. Short breaks in between meetings resulted in positive levels, meaning participants performed better. Conclusion: Take More Breaks The conclusion of the study seems to be that short breaks in between meetings are necessary: • Eliminate stress buildup • Improve performance • Reduce impact of attention residue I started implementing 25-minute meetings into my schedule (a built in 5-minute break) and immediately noticed a positive impact. A short walk or some movement in that window provided a clear reset. 25-minute meetings also eliminate the 5 minutes of “how about the weather” low value chit chat most meetings open with. If you set the tone to dive in and stay focused, there are few things that take more than 25 minutes. Try it! If you enjoyed this or learned something, follow me @SahilBloom for more in the future.