Notes
Lessons I keep coming back to.
Notes on self-improvement, business, design, and leading — collected over the years from books, people, and my own mistakes.
Book Notes
Startup & Business
Leadership
Mindset
- An emotion is a call to action. So just do it!The emotions you feel right now are a gift, a guideline, a call to action.
- Disconnect and focusYou get no competitive edge from consuming the same stuff everyone else is consuming.
- Don't let “Career Goal” limit youA person is not a chunk of ice to be chiseled toward one shape — we're clay, always being re-created.
- The life of truthAll truth goes through three steps: ridiculed, violently opposed, then accepted as self-evident.
- Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.When you skid out of control, the instinct is to look at the wall. But if you focus on the wall, you'll hit it.
- Truth is relative.When you find a “truth”, be aware if it's “Your Truth” or “The Truth”.
- Never fool yourself.The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Stay foolish, assume nothing.The fewer we assume, the better we can form opinions.
- Don't be a donkey.Don't overestimate what you can do in a year, and don't underestimate what you can do in 10 years.
- Pleasure and pain.The pair that decides virtually everything we do and don't do.