Most people quit because they forget that you have to be bad at something before you can be good at it. It's so obvious. You suck. Of course you're not going to win in 2 weeks. But if you can learn to enjoy extended periods of failure, you will make it very, very far in life.
You dont want a yacht. You dont want a big house. You dont want a super car, a $40,000 watch, or shoes you worry about getting dirty. You want free will.
You want to wake up naturally on a Tuesday and you want to go to bed when you’re done having fun. You want to say yes to everything that excites you without having to request time off. You want to go to the the gym at noon, in absolutely no hurry. You want to spend 18 hours a day doing what you love. You want to be exactly where you desire being, always. You want to spend as much time with the people you care about as possible.
You’re saying you wanna be rich? In what?
Every country has an energy. And that energy rewires you whether you notice it or not. People move to Japan and become minimal. People move to Mexico and their entire relationship with time softens. People move to New York and suddenly they can't sit still. Your personality is far more malleable than you think. We treat it like something fixed, but new surroundings give you new defaults. New pace. New habits. New values absorbed through proximity instead of effort. You're not just the average of the 5 people closest to you. You're the average of the 5 places, the 5 routines, and the 5 inputs you're exposed to most. Your commute shapes you. The weather shapes you. Every space you occupy is voting on who you become. That's why I believe choosing where you live is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make. More important than your job title. Maybe more important than your five-year plan. Because the place shapes the plan. The place shapes your energy, your habits, your relationships, your default state. Get the place right and half of the other decisions start making themselves. Get it wrong and you'll fight yourself every day.
Bill Gurley just identified the only career advantage that AI cannot commoditize.
It isn’t talent. It isn’t your degree. It isn’t your network.
Gurley: “The thing that will differentiate you more in your career than anything else is to be the most hyper curious person that’s trying to do this thing.”
For centuries, knowledge was gatekept. Elite institutions. Expensive mentors. Geographic luck.
The information existed but access to it was the moat.
That moat is gone.
Gurley: “You have no excuse not to be the most knowledgeable person, because the information’s all out there.”
Every question you can formulate now has an answer available instantly.
Every industry. Every domain. Every skill you want to acquire.
The playing field didn’t just level. It inverted.
The people who used to win by controlling access to information now compete against anyone willing to ask better questions.
Gurley: “I can’t make you the most talented person in your company or your field.”
Talent is genetic. It’s luck. It’s the variable you cannot control.
But knowledge is a choice. And curiosity is a compounding asset.
Gurley: “If you are the most curious person that’s constantly learning in your field, you will do extremely well.”
This was always true. What changed is the multiplier.
Gurley: “That advantage is put on steroids with these AI tools.”
A relentlessly curious person with access to all human knowledge and the ability to interrogate it in real time doesn’t just outlearn their peers.
They outlearn entire institutions.
The gap between the curious and the incurious was always there.
AI just made it insurmountable.
beehiiv just crossed $2M MRR
but most founders are still stuck trying to generate their first $100K
to celebrate the milestone I’m going to try something new…
I’m sharing the exact playbook we used in the early days (10 simple tactics)
hope this helps someone:
if this penguin doesn't penetrate your psyche so deeply that you are compelled to finally drop everything & chase your dreams.
then you're doomed forever bro.
My immigrant mother always told me “the only people who want communism are those that have never lived under a communist regime.”
She’s right.
And if you need proof:
This is the sound of millions of Venezuelans celebrating the capture of Communist dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Set aside an extended period of time for you to appear like a loser to everyone else.
Be calm and comfortable in it.
You’re not locking in, you’re not planning something secret and huge, you’re not working on anything major.
Be completely ok with the external judgements and feeling that you’re behind.
Don't perform. Don’t justify. Don’t brag. Even when you can - don’t make excuses. Just hold it.
Observe your desire to show off, notice what makes you feel the urge to over explain - why you feel unacceptable to yourself.
This sounds small, but it will fundamentally change you forever.
It will allow you to hold the big things properly when you actually advance.
we just unveiled the biggest product updates in @beehiiv history at our first ever winter release event
this isn’t just another platform update — it’s an entirely new operating system for the content economy
I can’t wait to see what you build next 😈
Wake up and immediately look at small screen before clocking 8 hours behind medium screen. Take a few breaks to check in on small screen. Go home and spend a few hours staring at big screen to wind down before getting into bed and looking at small screen.
Living the dream.