Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt all shared the same legendary executive coach, Bill Campbell.

So do you need a coach? Here’s how to find your very own Bill Campbell, and why you might want one. 🧵 First, why a coach? For founders, it’s because you require high performance in a high stakes, high pressure situations.

Lebron spends $1.5m on his body and health per year. That asset generates hundreds of millions — in salary, sponsorships, etc. Easily, the best deal in town.

Exciting stuff ahead! @Trypractice has raised $10m in seed funding, led by @andrewchen from a16z, as well as the nation’s #1 life & business strategist @TonyRobbins We also included tons of great investors: @austin_rief @briannorgard @gregisenberg @joshbuckley @lennysan @emilykramer @nikitabier @shrugcap @SahilBloom and many more to help build with us

If you're considering taking meditation more seriously, here are a few things to know, based on my experience >>>

Context: I've sat for whole days in seshin (long meditation retreats) and lived in a Zen monastery in Japan in my 20s for a bit 1. It is sometimes boring. No expectations is better than any at all

Do not imagine something magical will happen. Just let "it" happen, whatever that is.

Generic things marketing keynote speakers say that don't actually mean anything, a thread (please add your own): "data is the new oil"

Too much of superheroes movies is just really CGI'd punching Punching with stuff on

The reason bad UI is so destructive is that it's actually WORSE than the poor human interaction it's (generally) trying to replace.

You can at least ask the human questions, ie "OK what's the next step here?"

This is why product is so hard - bad UI is like a maze with no map. This is also why great customer service is so valuable at an early stage startup btw.

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Following up on a smart idea from @andrewchen, here is a good set of answers to "why startups fail," one of the most common startup questions on Quora: 1. Startups fail because the founders are bad.

If you are starting a company and you don't think you're exceptionally suited to solve the problem you're solving, stop. The likely conclusion is death.

Also, if you look around at your co-founders and you're like "meh," STOP NOW.

This is a fascinating read after all this time

wired.com/2008/12/top-te… ORLY

1/ Timing is absolutely everything when you are working on a project. You alwwya try to time things right, but ultimately they aren't up to you.

Spotify's acquisition of Gimlet gives me an opportunity to discuss this, so here we go. 2/ in 2004, I started a podcast- it was in the first 5 in Canada and probably in the first 50 in the whole world. The name of it was In Over Your Head. It was the world's first hip hop podcast. Yes really.

People are obsessed with remote being the new thing in startups - I think the reality is gonna be way more complicated.

For one, culture is the most important thing in startups, and remote working makes culture blurry. I learned waaaaay late in my founder career how important culture is to a new company - you don't ever clarify it early enough. I mean, you're busy! You have other shit to do than clarify culture right?? Wrong.

Apple Watch interfaces are fascinating. They are a very delicate exercise of showing only the most important thing to the right person at the right time (and nothing else).

Let's see some examples. 2/ here is my apple watch main screen. I have chosen it very specifically to show me things that matter to me at all times. Yet there are still many failures here.

1/ Morning rituals are probably the most important thing you can have a handle on. Here are a few tips to get them right. 2/ create the right mindset - you need to be in a good fucking mood. if you aren’t, your whole day starts off wrong. for me this means:

- inbox zero
- 1000 words of “morning pages”
- ideally, no meetings until 10am except maybe a casual work breakfast

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Here is a quick list of 100 insights I've gotten over the past decade. Any one of them you adopt, or choose to believe, will probably make your life better. Enjoy. 1. True wisdom and insight is always free.

Anyone charging you for anything is running a business. Most valuable things are freely available. That said, if you want to pay to access them more easily, go for it.

1/ so you have a new year's resolution. congratulations, and at the same time, god help you. here are the issues you'll experience in the next 12 months, trying to keep it. 2/ issue one - you're going to forget it. so, you need a reminder system that sits with you wherever you go, and wherever you most commonly look. for most people this is going to be their phone. here are some options:

Pretty sure you could switch Britain and the US to kg/metric/etc in about five simple steps

1/ start using YARDS as an official term instead of feet in all government and other documentation and make it a default option across apps. 2/ add variations thereof after a short while - KILOyards, MILLIyards etc

1/ there is this sense when you are young that your accomplishments need to be a list of things that seem impressive to others. A list of several items you did.

This isn't actually right, so here is another suggestion. 2/ I remember being 26 and writing about reading 52 books a year. I wrote blog posts about it. They got copied. It became "a thing." Now it's in Twitter bios. It looks impressive but it's insanely useless and I shouldn't have done it.

I recently came across @patrickc's collection of life advice he wished he could give himself before the age of 20. It inspired me to revisit a similar piece I wrote back in 2012. So here's my "updated" advice for those of you that are around 20—30. (I am about to turn 39.) 2/ When you’re young, you'll find that older people around you are resistant to new ideas that you naturally embrace. This is normal. It can have the impact of making you feel exceptionally open-minded, but you're not. You're just young.