Jonathan Adams

[Jonathan Adams @jtnxa]

“The brilliance of warfare is that no amount of eloquence or talk can explain away a failure on the battlefield.”

[Jonathan Adams @jtnxa]

Life will throw you in a hole more than once. Stop spending energy explaining the hole, defending the hole, regretting the hole, naming the hole, or making the hole a metaphor.

Nobody cares. Just climb out.

[Jonathan Adams @jtnxa]

100% agree. You can't lose when you have the right perspective.

[The Techno Optimist @technooptimist1]

Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath "Bro, there is no failure."

"That is what other people think of you to keep you down. There's no failure. If you were left on an island and it happened, you would just brush it off and move on. It's everybody else that you think is judging you. But then, here's the secret. They don't give a fuck about you. They are living their own lives. So it's your perception of what they think of you."

"There is no failure. There's do and learn. Do and learn. Do and learn. Do and learn."

@StanfordAILab

[Jonathan Adams @jtnxa]

Starting is easy, staying is hard. Consistency after the novelty is gone is the whole game.

[Jonathan Adams @jtnxa]

What you've been avoiding is not complicated, it's just emotionally expensive. Pay it early, or pay with interest.

[Jonathan Adams @jtnxa]

Success comes in waves, not baselines.

Never mistake a win for your new normal. Lock it in before the contraction comes.

Use profits to buy growth and staying power, not to fund the delusion that you’ve figured it out.

[Jonathan Adams @jtnxa]

“True luxury lies in the fact that you are not too widely known.”

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Do you want to be liked, or do you want to win?

[Jonathan Adams @jtnxa]

Money is not the finish line, it's more resources to solve harder problems.

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

Most “genius” is unusual taste, violent curiosity, and the inability to leave important ugliness unfixed.

[Jonathan Adams @jtnxa]

“The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.”

[Jonathan Adams @jtnxa]

Mediocre players spend more time in the pro shop than on the driving range. Same applies to business.

[Jonathan Adams @jtnxa]

The most ROI is always in building a cleaner machine and doubling down on what's working.

Go broad early. But when the opportunity to go narrow presents itself, go all in.

[Rhuigi @Rhuigi]

I stopped explaining things to people when I realized I didn’t earn a thing doing it.

[Jonathan Adams @jtnxa]

@NoRiskNoParty Not to take away from the point, but that is not a new Range Rover. It's a 10+ year old Range Rover Sport, $15k at best.

[Jonathan Adams @jtnxa]

@BoringBiz_ Listened to the urge a few years ago, recommend.

[Jonathan Adams @jtnxa]

It’s your responsibility to continually put yourself in situations that expose you to adversity and failure. Playing small keeps you small as a person.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

If you are not completely wrong every once in a while, you are not trying hard enough, you are not taking enough risks, you are actually betraying your future self.

The peace of mind that most people want is actually found on a journey full of rejections and disappointments.

[Jonathan Adams @jtnxa]

Stop bouncing from opportunity to opportunity every time it gets hard.

Every path has trade-offs. Where you are is probably extremely good for who you need to become next.

Commitment opens doors. Keep chasing the next thing and all you'll have to show is less time and energy.

[Jonathan Adams @jtnxa]

The less dependent the organization is on you, the more value you can give by focusing on things that have a long term payoff.

Operating out of fear will have you optimizing for dependence, not value.

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

Safety-seeking is expensive. Cognitively, emotionally, metabolically expensive. Your nervous system is running threat-detection 24/7, burning cycles on "what if" scenarios that never materialize. You're playing defense in a game where nobody's actually attacking you.

[Jonathan Adams @jtnxa]

People can change. But building around who someone already is almost always beats betting on who they might become.