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building in private and writing in public is my therapy

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there should be a "take your friend to work day" so we can actually see what our friends do all day and meet the characters from all their work stories

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i’m a strong believer in the power of “granny hobbies” to improve your mental health (and detox from digital everything) reading, knitting, gardening, crafting, cooking, baking, board games, sewing, birdwatching, playing cards, drinking tea …

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adult friendships are just employing increasingly aggressive pressure tactics to get your friends to move to your city

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if you don’t like politics, never work at a big company if you don’t like work, never work at a small company

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underrated sign of wellness: not being in a hurry

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working theory: a lot of “burnout” is just the result of prolonged exposure to environments you were never truly aligned with to start

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Spotify Wrapped but for your credit card would be so brutal yet really educational

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the purpose of reading a book isn’t to retain information, it’s to refine your worldview just a little bit with each one

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make friends that will be mad at you if you don’t pursue your dreams

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so we're all gonna wear a wire in public now?

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Generic ambition will give you anxiety. Specific ambition will give you direction.

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working theory: if you get even just a taste of the potential of building something of your own before age 25, it’s very hard to go back into the “traditional”workforce and stay there

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You need 2 types of people to keep early-stage startups from stagnating: - someone who’ll shamelessly sell the product before it’s fully ready to be sold - someone who’s embarrassed by this and will push to improve the product faster

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no one learns new things faster than someone who needs to apply the knowledge right now; so if you want to learn fast, commit to something asap that requires it

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Pixar’s first rule of storytelling

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what is charisma?

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career advice? fail young

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if you’re an ambitious person that doesn’t live around similarly ambitious people, the #1 thing you should do is start sharing your thoughts online where other similarly ambitious people hang out

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the only way to be happy with your work is to raise your skill to the level of your taste

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working theory: everyone should take a gap year (or at least 6 months) once every 5 years

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the best way to unblock yourself is to think of literally everything as just an experiment

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we can learn a lot from kids: - default happy - only eat when they’re hungry - curious about everything - not afraid to ask questions - no ingrained prejudices

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a good life: - one vocation - one hobby - one partner - five friends - a cozy home

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if you have ideas, write if you have taste, design if you have vision, build

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young friendships are forged over good times, adult friendships are forged over tough times

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everyone’s goal is to achieve everything they could ever want and then do this

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every single good idea starts with a good conversation. optimize your life for good conversations.

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when startups do insanely cool things: the team is small

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to get status, you have to give up status

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college dorms are wasted on the young. you don’t appreciate what a rare and awesome living and social experience that is until you can’t have it anymore

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entrepreneurship is a trauma response

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spot the placeholders in your life

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sorry boss i can’t come in to work today i’m behind on all my side projects

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“take your kids to work day” was too early, the adults needs this way more

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classes smart people should be required to take (part 2) - how to actually think less - how to make decisions without having all the information - how to not turn a hobby into work - how to separate what you want from what you think you should want - how to accept failure - how…

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act like you’ve already won

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there only two kinds of issues: skill issues will issues many supposed skill issues are actually will issues and many will issues are too often explained away by external factors

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one of the most impressive things you can do is have a legit hobby that isn’t just working more or consuming content

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the biggest superpower is being naturally curious about why people think how they think and do what they do

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we don’t talk enough about the difference between having “friends” and having a “friend group” — having a cohesive group of friends is a lot different than having all 1:1 friendships that you can’t easily mix

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working theory: socializing for 3 hours a day is the 10,000 steps of mental health

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if you’re not working on your life’s work, you’re working on someone else’s

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why aren’t there more pickup lines for just making friends besides “wanna grab coffee?” we need to get more creative

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the answer to other people’s problems can seem so clear to you because you’re not burdened by their past or future, you’re firmly rooted in their present (something that’s very hard to do when facing your own problems)

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people who want to start a company have almost nothing in common with people who want to run a company

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just having good taste, confidence, and the ability to communicate will make you rich

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working theory: your creation-to-consumption ratio is a measure of the expected quality of your life

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it is cruel that we’ve expected 22 year olds to pick a career for the rest of their life

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one of the best ways to make friends is to literally just show up at the same place at the same time everyday

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working theory: every startup needs a “cringe hire” — someone who will be as hyper cringe in public as needed to help the company win

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working theory: most college degrees are “backup degrees” because people are too scared to study what they’re actually passionate about

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the new dream is not more money, it’s more freedom in your daily schedule, any job that offers both will be highly coveted

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honestly it’s a red flag if you don’t have a gap in your resume

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adult friendships are just presenting increasingly obscure scientific proof to get your friends to adopt the same lifestyle as you

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nothing more powerful than realizing the thing you wanted before is actually dumb

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sounding smart will get you to the “upper middle” of the pack, but being willing to sound dumb is the only thing that can get you higher

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people still underestimate the power of giving a social event a premise hackathons, housewarmings, happy hours … all just hangouts with a narrative

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the only way to be happy with your work is to raise your skill to the level of your taste

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never trust a startup job description

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how to increase your “surface area of luck” — get to the arena early

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one of the most impressive things is when a person has the same close friends for years, like for decades, because you know that took extreme care, commitment, and compromise along the way

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nobody really wants to be a billionaire they just want to own a quaint coffee shop and have enough money to not have to work every day

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people should take “identity sabbaticals” — run away to somewhere no one knows you and start a new life with a new social identity, for about 6-12 months

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you can copy ideas but you can’t copy curiosity

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solo founder: lonely two founders: someone’s bossy three founders: someone’s not aligned four founders: someone’s dead weight

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no one works harder than people who work at a small company, there’s nobody to delegate to and nowhere to hide

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scheming is so underrated, everyone should set aside a couple of hours a week to make secret plans of grandeur

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every smart person should be required to take a course called “how to be more impulsive” lol

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having “high potential” is a trap

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working theory: most people want more friends not because they are lonely but because new relationships help them more fully express and expand their evolving self

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working theory: remote work + living near friends = more friends starting small businesses together

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the most skilled conversationalists can get to know a person deeply without asking any social-status-checking questions

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a big unlock in life is when you realize that you want what some people have but you don’t really want to be who they are

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your friends should make you sound smart in public and feel dumb in private and i mean this all in the healthiest way

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you can tell a lot about a person by how they react to unsolicited yet well-intentioned and spot on advice

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Timeless words, courtesy of Steve Jobs

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people who always clean their apartment right before someone comes over are the people you want around in a crisis

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The 5'11 1/2” of exits!

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Atlassian to acquire former unicorn Loom for $975M by @ron_miller

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a single well-articulated idea can change your life

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startup advice from my mom: “you need to generate income”

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saturdays are for cultivating your curiosity and elevating your taste

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your ideas are already in someone else’s head, the sooner you internalize this the faster you’ll be unblocked to act on them in your own unique way

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rich people want to be cool and cool people want to be rich and everyone just wants to be a little less anxious

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it takes two people to do anything great sometimes you only see one, but there’s always, always a second

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there are only two kinds of work: - work you run away from - work you run towards life is spent earning the privilege to do less of the first and more of the latter

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one of the biggest relationship unlocks is learning the difference between what someone tends to be appreciated for and what they really want to be appreciated for

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do the thing that you’d be jealous if someone else did first

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there’s a good cultural shift away from “you can have it all” and towards “you can only have a few things, choose wisely and focus”

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confidence comes from following through on the plans you make for yourself

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your biggest achievement should be something nobody can take away from you, which means it shouldn’t be something someone else had to give you in the first place

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getting really into something (like obsessively into that thing) makes everything else easier — earning respect, making money, making friends, finding a spouse

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there should be after-work extracurricular activity programs for young adults who live in big cities to meet people, pick up new hobbies, and eat tasty snacks

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the more ambitious your goals, the faster you need to make decisions

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whatever you want to achieve you can achieve faster if you get hyperspecific

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the solution to loneliness isn’t a product, it’s increasing your own surface area of social serendipity a few ways to do it: - choose to live in a city and neighborhood that has enough of the kinds of people you enjoy talking to - make leaving the house and walking around the…

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commit or quit