Even better than meditation.

I've experienced because of business: - awake all night due to anger - panic attacks - feeling like a loser - crying in the shower alone - dealing with no-win situations - awake all night due to stress - losing friends - breaking down in tears in front of family - being stolen from by trusted colleagues - losing close relationships and never speaking again. - been embarrassed for letting people down This is why experienced entrepreneurs won't tell you it's all wine and roses. Is this life right for everyone? No. Is it right for me and many? Definitely.

Weird. Seems like the groups most rapidly fleeing the Democratic coalition are the exact ones where Bernie Sanders was strongest (working class, Latinos, Bros!). Maybe that guy was onto something!

My view this morning; hazy but bright. When I ran for President I discovered we are not as divided as the political angertainment industry would have us believe. So turn off the tv, put down the phone, go on a walk, and say hello to some neighbors. 🇺🇸

If this new team genuinely improves the lives of working class Americans I will be glad.

Starting startups needs to go back to being low status. Parents should not want their kids to do this. Too many VC-funding addicted status chasers want to live the founder lifestyle.

.@naval on the most important things in life - material needs (money / creation / leverage) - fit body - calm mind - house full of love

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It doesn’t look cool. Looks like a normal F-150 but not as much range or towing/hauling capacity. Early adopters tend to buy things because they’re cool. Ford made a truck early in an innovative cycle with a design for Laggards and the Late Majority. Should look like a raptor.

early-stage startups - no one wants to say this part of the growth journey out loud but -- every day missed is 2-3 days further away from traction each day not spent executing in the market to engage or talk to customers is a day of not learning putting you 2-3 days further away from revenue finding the pulse takes 2-3x longer than what most founders expect

"If you could literally just sit for 30 minutes and be happy, you are successful." @naval

milei’s speech should be the media event of the year. every high school class in the US should break and watch it, then spend a week understanding the historical context behind his devastating truths. if you haven’t watched, please do. and share widely.

This is how the best pre seed founders build too.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the more important thing to focus on here is why he said GFY

Peter Thiel describes a startup category that is continually underestimated In the clip below, Peter Thiel explains why he believes “complex coordination” is a company category that’s continually underestimated. “The question we always focus on is ‘can this company become a monopoly?’” He then lists several things that can make a company a monopoly: Super fast distribution on a very thin product (e.g. Twitter) A technological advantage that is continually built upon: you come up with something new and steadily improve (e.g. enterprise SaaS software) A truly brilliant breakthrough (e.g. Bitcoin) However he argues that complex coordination—where you take a lot of little pieces and coordinate them into something new—is continually overlooked as a way to create a monopoly: “This is the thing that’s maybe 180 degrees antithetical to the Lean Startup ethos. It’s complicated. You have to put all the pieces together in just the right way. I think this is on some level what really drove Apple as an innovative company in the last decade… What was new about the iPhone? There was no single component that was new. It was just that you put all of these things together in just the right way… and once you built it, it was actually super hard for people to replicate. You had an advantage for many years. You could get network lock in—in terms of the app community or the brand.” He also points to Tesla and SpaceX as examples: “There’s no component to the Tesla that’s actually that new. It’s just that you put all of the pieces together. You re-engineered the whole distributor network. It was this complex coordination that made it work. There’s like this lost art of accounting where you figure out how much things cost and add them all together. And Elon has discovered this lost art of accounting which no other people practice.”

Harsh Truth: Your quest for perfection is hurting your progress. In Excellent Advice for Living, Kevin Kelly proposes an interesting idea: "When you have 90% of a large project completed finishing the final details will take another 90%." The idea here is that closing out that last 10% of any big project is actually a significantly larger undertaking than anyone anticipates. Many large projects are known for taking just as long to get through the final details as they did to get through the bulk of the actual work. Marc Randolph, the co-founder of streaming giant Netflix, recently commented on his own adaptation of the 90% Rule: The example he uses is around Netflix's early decision to not ship DVDs to Canada, writing, "we reasoned that even though it seemed like low-hanging fruit in terms of revenue, dealing with different currencies, languages, and other complications would serve as more of a distraction than a net positive." Concluding the point, Randolph says, "You have to recognize that what looks like low hanging fruit rarely is...Freeing yourself up from worrying about all that lets you allocate more time and attention to the important stuff." I'd distill these thoughts down to a single idea: Good enough is often the optimal solution. Ambitious, high-achieving people are more likely to get caught up in the perfection of that last 10% (which takes another 90% according to Kelly) than accept the good enough outcome and move on to the next important thing. Training yourself to identify when perfection is getting in the way of your goals is a key skill to develop—in business as much as in life. So, where are you allowing perfection to slow your progress? *** If you enjoyed this or learned something, share it with others and follow me @SahilBloom for more in future.

People slowly waking to the realization that most of the conventional wisdom about company building from this last cycle was really really bad advice.

A successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs told me today that he had no health issues of any kind when he was in the supposedly high stress job of running a fast-growing tech company. Once he sold his company (for mid 9 figures USD) and stepped away from a full time operational role, his blood pressure and cholesterol spiked. He believes that sitting around and worrying about random things has been more stressful for him than a full-time operating role. He is now planning to get back to starting or running a technology company. My takeaway: you feel happier and less stressed doing something you enjoy than doing nothing at all.

Whenever I feel overwhelmed, I try to remind myself: No one really knows what the hell they’re doing. Some people are just better at smiling through the chaos and marching into the unknown.

"No success in the professional realm can compensate for failure in the home." - A wise friend. @naval