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- Priorities over perfection
- What are your metrics? Quality over quantity, better friends over many friends.
- Beware of too much advice, and from whom? (Why are you taking advice from Twitter?)
- Find work that’s worth iterating.
- In writing, editing is everything.
- Do it now. Yes, right now.
- Most fights, arguments, and donuts aren’t worth it.
- Procrastination is killing you.
- It’s not that our lives are meaningless. It’s that we fill our lives with meaningless things.
- Don’t do it because you think it will be easy; even what is perceived as easy is often subtlely difficult.
- Knowing your problems is half the battle.
- Never scrimp on tires or shoes.
- Warm leads are exponentially better than cold leads.
- Treating people like they’re essential benefits everyone.
- I’ve always overlooked the importance of environment, context, and cohorts. Getting those right will make a world of difference.
- Friction or flow. Everyone in life is looking for friction or flow. Both friction and flow make you feel alive, but only one is healthy and valuable.
- Rising to the top of a hierarchy means you will be attacked somehow. Plan accordingly.
- Most things are a matter of framing and opinion. It’s often possible to reframe things positively.
- Are you maintaining your health and closest relationships as well as you maintain your car, your house, or your fantasy football team?
- Tools aren’t everything, but often, it’s worth finding the right tool.
- Developing strong and healthy boundaries will keep you sane.
- It’s easier than ever to change the channel. You don’t have to continue arguing, commenting, or caring. You can move on to another of the infinite choices you have.
- Finished books are acquired assets.
- It’s easier than ever to create assets out of thin air. What assets are you building, acquiring, or creating?
- Iteration and experimentation allow humans to evolve beyond their genes. How are you growing?
- Transformation is a superpower.
- Never scrimp on tires or shoes.
- Avoid ‘reverse paretoism,’ Things that take up inordinate amounts of time for little payoff. (See: the Pareto Principle)
- Has worrying ever solved a problem?
- Life is too short for an unhealthy, unfriendly cohort.
- The power to choose is one of the best tools at our disposal. It’s one of the most misused tools as well. What are you choosing right now?
- The only path forward is through creation.
- You can be yourself through solitude or, counterintuitively, in collaboration with those with complementary skills, but not in competition.
- Is this going to matter in a month? If not, take a deep breath and deal with it. And if it does matter? Could you take a deep breath and deal with it?
- Movement helps me think. When I had easy access to a basketball hoop, it was shooting hoops. Walking works, too.
- When asking for help, try to get as specific as possible with the aim or question.
- Time is always of the essence.
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