"Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose." — Steve Jobs
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
Don't wait. Begin doing what you want to do right now.
This next year, let's strive towards making a life by collecting experiences rather than things.
I'm reminding myself: Go slow to go fast.
no one is gonna give it to you. you gotta take it.
Life is too short for cheap crap.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby
Do right and fear no man.
There are so many things that you can let yourself get mad about, but they take your attention away from the things you could enjoy.
Can’t say it enough: surround yourself w/people who are trying to better themselves, growing + who appreciate life. It changes things.
У меня когда-то в профиле было написано “go big or go home”, но чем старше становишься, тем больше начинаешь ценить простые вещи. Семья, хорошая книга, cash-flow business with no outside investors 😁
Weekdays are a free man’s weekend
Don't wait for a life-altering event to make positive changes
I practice a new habit: if I’m stressed or anxious - I work out. Been doing this for 2 months. Result -> best shape in 2 years.
I think I found a sane approach to “life” todo workflow. Backlog -> Needs Action <-> Needs Reaction -> Done.
Workspaces ranked by productivity:
The maximum success is reached when you are never busy.
It is easiest to do the most when you have nothing to do.
Knowledge Work 101:
People over-estimate what they can accomplish with ten hours of distracted work and under-estimate what they can accomplish with two hours of undistracted work.
Focus is everything.
People tend to avoid the important work they fear by doing unimportant work that wears them out.
They suppress anxiety with exhaustion, but they do not address the source of the problem.
Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is eliminate the task.
The interruptions and resulting small chunks of time are why you need to work 60 hour weeks to get 35 hours of actual work done.
You don’t need any more hours in the day, you just need to spend them better.
Productivity is for machines, not for people. There’s nothing meaningful about packing some number of work units into some amount of time, or squeezing more into less. Think about how effective you’re being, not how productive you’re being.
Overrated: inspiration. Underrated: discipline.
Overrated: talent. Underrated: time.
I'm still figuring out the whole "what am I doing with my life" thing, but one thing I can say with conviction: I never ever again want to spend 40+h/week of my life frowning at a computer so rich men in Patagonia vests increase their net worth
“The most precious resource we all have is time.” - SJ. Remembering you always.
Your phone is the adult marshmallow test you fail 250 times a day.
Habits are easy to keep up as soon as you stop treating them like chores to reach a distant goal and start treating them like little adventures every single day.
Focus on how to solve the problem, not how you will solve it.
When you've gotten enough sleep, an impossible task becomes an interesting challenge.
My favorite meetings are cancelled meetings. They are the most productive.
Sleep is good. Sleep works. Fuck companies and products that shame you into skimping on it or skipping it.
My goal is to decrease my work load to 10h per week + rest free time to do fun + creative + charitable + new projects
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”―Eleanor Roosevelt
"Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail." - Seth Godin
"Being busy" is such a fetish in the startup world. The best entrepreneurs and investors I've met are alarmingly responsive.
Deep Work Wednesdays has been a powerful concept at @buffer:
A few months ago, the engineers @Buffer started a "deep work Wednesday" experiment. A resounding success, it's since permeated many areas! 👌
Power of focus
At a startup, it’s hard enough to get a single thing right, much less a whole bunch of things. Focus is imperative. Even when the thing you're focusing on seems impossible. Especially then.
“Every time we say yes to a request, we are also saying no to anything else we might accomplish with the time.” — Tim Harford
Via https://jamesclear.com/saying-no
3 Hard Truths You Must Accept:
Improvement or decline is a reflection of your daily habits.
Capisce?
How to be a rebel in the 2020's:
Tip: Break tasks you procrastinate into smaller, low-energy ones. It helps.
We procrastinate if a task is...
Knowing why helps.
The modern individual:
⁃ Gets no sleep ⁃ Eats refined junk ⁃ Works in a cubicle ⁃ Never reads books ⁃ Hides from the sun ⁃ Plays status games ⁃ Is addicted to comfort
Modernity is a virus that breeds depression and sickness.
Focus more on the things that make you happy.
Focus less on the things that don't make you happy.
Can't go wrong with that process.
🎯 Eliminate distractions. 🏋️ Do your maintenance morning. 📅 Follow the schedule. 🔢 Guard your inputs. 📄 Document everything. 🥄 Less food. More water. 🛏️ Get to bed on time. 🔄 Consistency. Consistency. Consistency.
Busy is a new stupid
Porn is not sex. Sugar is not food. Gaming is not life. Alcohol is not medicine. Cigarettes is not breathing. Social media is not freedom. Energy drink is not hydration.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking that these are substitutes for the real thing.
How to live a miserable life:
Staying miserable is a choice.
Rules of Happiness
💖 Have friends around you 🌳 Have freedom 🎨 Do meaningful work 💳 Spend $ on experiences, not things 🤝 Help others with what you're good at 👇 Lower your expectations 💪 Exercise + eat healthy 🤔 Reflect on thoughts
Okay I am okay at the productivity thing.
My philosophies:
Dear tech companies,
Employees don't need ping pong tables or beer fridges at work. 🙅♂️🙅♀️
Employees need flexibility to do their best work and enjoy life. For instance, working remotely. 🙋♂️🙋♀️
Please offer trust, not toys. 🙌
Things I wish I’d learnt at high school:
1 Public speaking 2 Project management 3 Negotiation 4 Conflict resolution 5 Software development 6 Accounting 7 Financial planning 8 Critical thinking 9 Storytelling 10 People management 11 Marketing
Work on yourself, so that you don't have to work for others.
Life is too short to worry about what others say or think about you. Have fun and give them something to talk about.
Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.
There's always better. There's always faster. There's always more. But there will never be another now.
We weren't put on this planet to work all-day.
Please never ever ever defer your dreams. Today might be the last day you're alive. Make every day a bucketlist day.
If you don't build your dreams, someone will hire you to build theirs.
"Многие зависшие дела могут сдвинуться с мертвой точки в результате действия, на которое требуется не более 2 минут" Дэвид Аллен.
Секрет всех деятельных людей прост — энергия рождается в самом действии.
