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Daniel Vassallo

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26 Sep

If you put 10,000 hrs practicing the piano, you will almost certainly become very good at the piano.

If you put 10,000 hrs into your business, it doesn’t necessarily translate to anything!

The first kind has a predictable relationship to effort. The second kind doesn’t.

You need a different attitude when trying to achieve the unpredictable:

- Instead of consistency of effort, you need intensity when the right opportunity emerges.

- Instead of focusing on one thing, you need exposure to randomness and serendipity.

- Instead of a rigid plan, you need freedom to explore and some aimless wandering.

- Instead of external motivators, you need intrinsic drive.

- Instead of repetitiveness, you need variation.

- Instead of stability, you need insurance against what you can’t tolerate losing.

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Daniel Vassallo

@dvassallo

13 Sep

How it started How it’s going

I also bought kaleidoscopeboards.com while waiting for the glue to dry :)

Color pop:

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Daniel Vassallo

@dvassallo

19 Aug

How to be happy:

Learn your true preferences. Life becomes much more pleasant once you stop chasing the preferences of others.

Try new things, take what works, and throw away the rest.

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Daniel Vassallo

@dvassallo

30 Jun

Different ways to approach work:

Idea-first

You start with an idea (a product, a job title, a career, etc.), and try to make it a reality at all costs.

Good, but what about the rest of your life? And what if your idea turns out to be a dud?

Income-first

You start with what you have, and try to maximize the most likely way to make the most money.

Good, but when do you stop? And what if you hate what you’re doing?

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Daniel Vassallo

@dvassallo

7 Apr

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Daniel Vassallo

@dvassallo

8 Mar

Everyone wants to decouple time from money.

The problem? It's an extremely unpredictable way to make a living. For every successful creator, there are thousands who make nothing or almost nothing.

So, how do you make the unpredictable, predictable? Here's what I learned:

See, there are two very distinct worlds of how to make a living in our universe.

The first world is the one we're mostly familiar with, where you follow a predictable career path.

Say you want to make a living as a programmer, a doctor, a plumber, an English teacher, etc. If you do certain things (learn to code, get a specific degree, etc.) you can increase the odds of getting what you want to very close to 100%.

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