I’m bragging but private chef has been the best allocation of $ ever.
Overnight oats + 2 juices daily, 5 dinners a week, basic meal prep on weekends and cut fruit always.
Shopping, cooking, and cleaning all handled. Service 3x a week.
Cost of food and services averages $500 USD/month.
The following is one of the most important Rick Rubin'ism, and applies to musical artists as much as technology builders:
If you are excited to share with your friend — if I'm working in the studio, long before the record comes out, and l'm excited to play it for my friend who has good taste, who I know likes good music — it could come out then.
If I want to play it for them, that's good enough for everybody.
But usually, artists will feel like, well, I'll play this for my boys, but it has to be a lot better before regular people can hear it.
And that's ridiculous.
It's like, as soon as I liked it enough to share it with one person, chances are, it's ready for everybody.
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