I’ve been mega-obsessed with this feeling.

A year as a 36-year-old seems so much shorter as compared to when I was a kid or even as a teen.

It seems cosmically unfair – we have fewer years to live, and each year flies by faster.

But, why is that happening?

I was telling Standard MBA students in 2009: "The constraints are your friends. Under-do the competition." Fifteen years later, it's still true, and we're still doing just that.

Your ability to simply show up consistently separates you from 99% of competitors.

Steve Jobs' email to himself 13 months before he died... Hard work leads to accomplishment leads to humility

It is not the most intelligent who succeed, but the most determined.

"Everyone talks about how if you went back in time, some tiny change could make everything different now, but no one talks about how some tiny change now could make everything different in the future."

— 14 yo

99% of your productivity relies on your ability to prioritize and then focus.

Неймовірно, як часто талановиті підприємці настільки сильно сумніваються у своїх досягненнях, що поступаються місцем тим, хто вміє голосно кричати про себе.

The productivity system that makes me $1M/year:

(steal this)

1. Open apple notes.
2. Add the tasks that need to get done today.
3. Do them.

Перше правило стартапа: краще одна задача в статусі done ніж чотири задачі в статусі almost done

The advice I find I have to give more frequently than any other in my career as a manager, a board member, an advisor, and a friend is for people to more directly leverage their leaders.

My desk setup to stay motivated building a startup for 4 years.

90% know what to do. 10% actually go and do it. 1% continue for long enough to win.

Steve Jobs was clearly a very smart man, without a lot of empathy for lesser beings. So is he saying “Everything was made up by people no smarter than Steve Jobs”, or does he actually mean it that the average world/company/industry leader really is no smarter than you?

There is only one state of mind that makes you a successful entrepreneur:

Problem solving.

The minute you launch your startup you're more successful than 99.99% of other entrepreneurs because most people never get that far.

Someone with half your IQ is making 10x as you because they aren't smart enough to doubt themselves.

If you’re like me, you’re maybe a jobbing dev taking on contracts and occasionally your own gigs (and by-and-large this works out OK) but maybe you secretly hate yourself for being terrible at estimation, and wish you were better at it.

If that sounds like you, read on!

In the modern world, don’t minimize your risks - maximize your opportunities

If you have young children, 5AM is one of the only times you can get deep work done. No one is awake, and it’s silent. And no notifications from family/friends.

Is 5AM a requirement for success? No, but that’s when I get my best work done every day.

The only way to get what you want in life is to repeatedly say no to what you don't

“Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty." Tim Ferriss

Goal in life is to always be busy.

Busy doing nothing.

You’re not going to get rich renting out your time.

You must own equity, a piece of a business - to gain your financial freedom

Don't talk to me about self love if you don't care for your body.

We think a lot about those black lines, forgetting that it’s all still in our hands.

Promote yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.

If you want to be taken seriously, show, don't tell.

The day you normalize 4 hours of focused work a day is the day your life will completely change.

Being easily offended means you're easily manipulated.

Discipline is a cheat code to life

No one is going to pay you what you’re worth. You have to start a company.

Не помню, у кого я нашел эту картинку, но 2-3 часа в день на книги это круто. Тем более заставить себя снова и снова перечитывать "основу", а не бегать в поисках shiny new things каждый день.

Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not too early to ask why, and what we need to do about it.

Чи ви пам’ятаєте, як нещодавно комп’ютер пройшов тест Тьюрінга? Пропоную розібратись з тим, що таке суперінтелект, чого нам від нього очікувати і куди взагалі ведуть нас сучасні комп’ютерні технології. В цьому дописі переклад відразу 2-х частин статті. Щоб ви були готові — це лонгрід.

Ми на порозі четвертої технологічної революції, але яку можна порівняти лише з виникненням людського життя на Землі. — Vernor Vinge

І як це бути на порозі технологічної революції?

Busy is a new stupid

As you get older, if you’re at all self-aware, you learn two important things about yourself: what you like, and what you’re good at. Anyone who gets to spend his day doing both of those things is a lucky man.

“The most precious resource we all have is time.” - SJ. Remembering you always.

I’m excited to finally be letting the world know that I’ve moved onto a new opportunity after three years at Toptal. I've founded Integral Labs, a company that will allow me to work more closely with many companies on a variety of projects. For those wondering, I'll still be fully remote.

While this article touches on my personal thoughts and experiences, I hope it’ll provide a framework for others looking to make important and often difficult career decisions, in a world where change is the only constant.

Over the years, we’ve all encountered our fair share of successes and failures. As I’ve acquired more of both under my name, I’ve started to contemplate which experiences were truly “great” and why.

Anyone can steal your idea, but no one can steal your execution.

The ultimate productivity hack is saying no.

Not doing something will always be faster than doing it. This statement reminds me of the old computer programming saying, “Remember that there is no code faster than no code.”

If you keep working on your strengths, you become unique.

If you keep working on your weaknesses, you become average.

Work with your strengths, delegate your weaknesses.

People overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten

Don’t quit

Make friends ...

✅ Inside your industry to help each other, share ideas, and know people who can actually relate to you/your situation

✅ Outside your industry to share experiences, temper your ideas, and remind yourself there's a huge world outside your little corner of it

Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.

What's an Effective Engineer?

• They are the people who get things done. Effective Engineers produce results.

Criticism is easy. Creating something worth criticizing is the hard part.

CREATE before you CONSUME.

Don’t read emails first thing in the morning. Don’t look at your twitter feed. Don’t let distractions interrupt your stream of consciousness.

Grab your cup of coffee and Create.

Go solo Take 100% ownership Pay people if you need them Avoid drama

No one can compete with you on being you.

Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.

The secret to getting rich is the same as the secret to being an outlier in most fields: to enjoy doing things that make one rich.

“A year from now you will wish you had started today.” - Karen Lamb

Люси — представитель поколения Y: людей, рожденных в конце 70-х — начале 90-х годов. Сейчас им по 20-30 лет, они закончили вузы и теперь работают. Если они работают в большом городе и занимаются интеллектуальным трудом, их называют «Юппи» — young urban professionals, молодые трудоустроенные горожане. Люси как раз такая.

Remember, mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks.

Rich people have nothing in common. They seem totally random.

But powerful people—one thing is absolute: they wake up early every day.

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”―Eleanor Roosevelt

Один венгерский профессор психологии написал нескольким известным людям запросы на интервью для своей книги про творческих людей. Его удивило то, сколько из них ответили твердым отказом.

If you launch and no one notices, launch again. We launched 3 times.

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” ― Aristotle

"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been" -Wayne Gretsky

If you don't build your dreams, someone will hire you to build theirs.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby

There's always better. There's always faster. There's always more. But there will never be another now.

Собственно говоря, лишь очень немногие живут сегодняшним днем. Большинство готовиться жить позднее. Джонатан Свифт

Make things that you wish existed.

no one is gonna give it to you. you gotta take it.

Apple’s last quarter was the second most profitable quarter of any company ever in US history. Only ExxonMobile topped them slightly in 2008 when oil was at an all-time high. That’s an astounding and awe-inspiring accomplishment.

"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming." - Richard Branson

STOP wishing and START doing!

One of my favorite soundbites is: if it hurts, do it more often. It has the happy property of seeming nonsensical on the surface, but yielding some valuable meaning when you dig deeper

People don't want to get rich, they want not to have to worry about money. We created a society where you can only do that by getting rich.

When you say "Thank god it's Friday", I hear "I hate my job".

If you never try, you'll never know.

"It's never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

“I’d love to start a company / become a great programmer / write an awesome blog, but there’s just not enough time in the day!” Bullshit. There’s always enough time, you’re just not spending it right.

Now that’s some tough love, but I’m sick and tired of hearing “no time” as an excuse for why you can’t be great. It really doesn’t take that much time to get started, but it does take wanting it really bad. Most people just doesn’t want it bad enough and protect their ego with the excuse of time.