The cost of success is being hated on.
The cost of authentically being yourself is being criticized and judged.
The cost of self-improvement is reclusiveness and loneliness.
A key difference between very successful people and mediocre people is that the former never make excuses.
It doesn’t matter what your excuse is. It could be legitimate. But it doesn’t matter what it is. There are no excuses.
And successful people know to distance themselves from excuse makers.
Select for the right people in your orbit.
Your days have to be SO intentional beyond belief. SO intentional. People waffle around for years and then pick their head up and wonder why they have nothing. Every minute counts. Every hour you commit to the right thing sets you up for in a year from now. Every move is intentional. You have so much time in a day if you are intentional. What can I do RIGHT now to fix my health. To get in shape. To nourish my body. To recover. To make money. To build something. To follow my passion. To get myself in the right environment. Every minute. Stack the minutes. Stack the days. Ditch the vices. Ditch the things that hold you back. Pray that God will show you the way and give you the tools that you need. Compound interest in life is powerful. It’s amazing yet also dangerous. Make sure you are compounding the right things.
Your surroundings will shape what you think is good product design vs. what actually is usable.
When you’re building software in San Francisco:
Surrounded by sober Ivy League engineers who go to sleep at 8pm and have a perfectly balanced diet (i.e., human computers)
What America actually is:
• 23% of Americans have some form of mental illness
• 20% of Americans have more than 6 drinks per day
It’s actually surprising that anyone gets through any signup process at all. Try to do the email confirmation flow after 6 drinks.
be boring. wake up early. exercise. work. learn. do the boring things. find fun in them. stick to a schedule. do what you have to do, not what you want to. obsess about how youll get to where you want to be. don't waste your energy in anything that doesnt help you in the long run
I don't care what your day job is, if you don't know how to write well then you are going to fall behind in the age of AI
One of the only things that will separate profitable humans from AI will be their personal brands
Btw, writing well more so in the sense of writing to sell and to build a story. Building a BRAND
Sell your ideas, sell your products, sell sell sell
Writing isn't dead cuz of LLMs. You p much have a team of jr. writers at the tip of your fingertips now
It’s little stuff like this that reminds me humans were built for play and joy, so much of our existence robs us of it, but we are searching for it everywhere
Life is extraordinarily forgiving. You can make every mistake in the book & trail sideways for seven years but turn everything around in a matter of 7 months as if nothing ever happened
Failures are quickly forgotten & God loves to make miracles of the most unlikely circumstancs