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1/ Build an unfair advantage that compounds over time (e.g. Specific skills/knowledge)
Compound over time means that the more you put in, the better you get, increasing your defensibility.
It also means that it looks impressive now + will look impressive later.
1/ Build an unfair advantage that compounds over time (e.g. Specific skills/knowledge)
Compound over time means that the more you put in, the better you get, increasing your defensibility.
It also means that it looks impressive now + will look impressive later.
How do you know your unfair advantage?
Ask others: What’s something that’s easy for you to do but hard for others?
AND very difficult for people to reverse engineer?
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Ask others: What’s something that’s easy for you to do but hard for others?
AND very difficult for people to reverse engineer?
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Build your professional life around obtaining an unfair advantage.
The Q to ask when evaluating career decisions:
What can you do, today, that makes it easier for you to have the career opportunities + resources you desire, tomorrow, in a way that compounds and is defensible?
The Q to ask when evaluating career decisions:
What can you do, today, that makes it easier for you to have the career opportunities + resources you desire, tomorrow, in a way that compounds and is defensible?
Think about Loops:
The quickest / most durable way to an unfair advantage (skills, brand, network, $) is starting a successful company, but there are other ways:
Reevaluate your approach to risk:
The quickest / most durable way to an unfair advantage (skills, brand, network, $) is starting a successful company, but there are other ways:
Reevaluate your approach to risk:
Re: Risk: Take asymmetric bets, where, if you lose, you only lose 1x and if you win you can win 1000x. Avoid the reverse
Example of bad asymmetric bets (gossip, risking injury)
Bad asymmetric bets seem attractive but long-term threaten your integrity.
Example of bad asymmetric bets (gossip, risking injury)
Bad asymmetric bets seem attractive but long-term threaten your integrity.
To that end, build a reputation of integrity & frictionlessness.
Honesty is confirming our words to reality. Integrity is confirming reality to our words — keeping promises, fulfilling expectations, Doing The Right Thing, etc
Frictionlessness:
Honesty is confirming our words to reality. Integrity is confirming reality to our words — keeping promises, fulfilling expectations, Doing The Right Thing, etc
Frictionlessness:
Follow Paradoxical commandments: paradoxicalcommandments.com
Don’t defect!
Master nonviolent communication and you’ll avoid drama, needless conflicts, and struggles bouncing back (we’re all beginners here :-)
Work well w/ others.
Don’t defect!
Master nonviolent communication and you’ll avoid drama, needless conflicts, and struggles bouncing back (we’re all beginners here :-)
Work well w/ others.
Set defaults well
Sleep . No alarm clock
Exercise
Eat food
Meditate
Habit of gratitude.
Day in solitude:
@danielgross talk: blog.ycombinator.com/managing-your-…
Sleep . No alarm clock
Exercise
Eat food
Meditate
Habit of gratitude.
Day in solitude:
@danielgross talk: blog.ycombinator.com/managing-your-…
Defaults aside, it’s easier to change your environment than your insides.
So find the people who make you better (Twitter is great place to look) and run to where they are as fast as your legs can possibly carry you.
That’s how you “be at the right place at her right time”
So find the people who make you better (Twitter is great place to look) and run to where they are as fast as your legs can possibly carry you.
That’s how you “be at the right place at her right time”
/Be wildly ambitious: Envision the highest version of your own success. Do not rationalize? Dream big and you will gravitate towards those dreams.
Embrace the goldilocks amount of entitlement - you deserve the chance to prove yourself. That’s it. But that’s a lot.
Embrace the goldilocks amount of entitlement - you deserve the chance to prove yourself. That’s it. But that’s a lot.
Only play tournament games if you can win.
If you can’t - make a new game. In order to do so, you need to be ok looking dumb:
If you can’t - make a new game. In order to do so, you need to be ok looking dumb:
Recruit underpriced assets and build long-term alignment with them. Be generous with equity upside and offer to invest in their next thing. Pull up the people who helped make you successful. Make your success their success.
Be a person who others want to see successful.
Be a person who others want to see successful.
Become anti-fragile:
- Be directly & legibly impressive
- Inner security & strength
- True & dedicated relationships
- Low personal burn
- Be directly & legibly impressive
- Inner security & strength
- True & dedicated relationships
- Low personal burn
Be thoughtful about your time.
What’s one thing you could do now that if you did regularly would make a tremendous difference in your personal life? Prioritize this and make it sacred. In general, don’t prioritize your schedule. Schedule your priorities.
What’s one thing you could do now that if you did regularly would make a tremendous difference in your personal life? Prioritize this and make it sacred. In general, don’t prioritize your schedule. Schedule your priorities.
Have the courage to say to no to things that aren’t crucial. The way to do this is by having a bigger yes burning inside. By saying yes to somethings, you are saying no to other things that are not urgent but far more important
The best way is to have a set structure + blame it.
The best way is to have a set structure + blame it.
Embrace what John Keats called Negative capability .
You're bending the world toward your will but not bothered when it doesn't bend
You're striving for more but happy with what you have
You’re telling a story while also acknowledging the futility & inaccuracy of narratives.
You're bending the world toward your will but not bothered when it doesn't bend
You're striving for more but happy with what you have
You’re telling a story while also acknowledging the futility & inaccuracy of narratives.
Bounce back from set-backs and just keep going. Long-game. Stay in it.
