Never forget the 4chan Nostradamus who predicted the entire market to the EXACT DAY.

RT @JamesClear: Habits that have a high rate of return in life: - sleeping 8 hours each day - lifting weights 3x week - going for a wal…

Yesterdays Impossibility will soon be Tomorrows Lazyness.

This is the cure to your LAZINESS ‼️‼️

Quality of tests is a reflection of the quality of code under test.

You think you’re learning. You’re not. Watching, reading, and listening feel like progress. They’re not. Real learning happens when you wrestle with ideas, apply them, and struggle. If it feels easy, you are just collecting information. Most first-time founders and early teams waste years chasing knowledge instead of mastery. They believe that reading more, listening more, and taking more notes will help them figure it out. But knowledge is not the bottleneck. Execution is. You do not need more advice. You need to apply what you already know. If you cannot explain something simply, you do not understand it. If a lesson claims to teach you everything in ten minutes, it is not worth learning. Books and podcasts will not save you. Customers will tell you everything you need to know. Founders who learn fast do not look smarter. They look like they are making mistakes in public, iterating, and fixing things fast. That is because they are. Your biggest risk is not failure. It is spending years feeling productive instead of actually getting better. The founders who move the fastest are the ones who get back to basics. Talk to customers instead of talking about customers. Write down what you learn instead of assuming you will remember. Solve one painful problem well before chasing new ideas. Make decisions today instead of pushing them to tomorrow. Start now, because waiting never made anyone great.

Prefer clear code over clever code. Don't mistake terse for concise. Terse code is short, cryptic, clever, and is often error prone. Concise code is clear, simple, and easy to understand and change.

Recent @ReadyLACounty alert to evacuate was sent in ERROR. Evacuation orders have not changed. See map for actual @LACity evacuation orders for some selected areas, ONLY! experience.arcgis.com/experi…

“Spend no more than 10 hours taking courses without action.” — Victor Moreno A great rule of thumb to really learning is to stop learning how to do things and actually do them. link.medium.com/b1VnPQYQYPb

Behind every great product there’s at least one engineer who knows the entire stack, takes problems personally, and jumps in and solves them. Without regard to ownership, credit, or chain of command. If you don’t know who this is in your company, I have bad news for you…

“It’s the small habits. How you spend your mornings. How you talk to yourself. What you read and what you watch. Who you share your energy with. Who has access to you. That will change your life.” Michael Tonge One simple change that transformed my life: buff.ly/3yMSt25

If things are going well, keep your savings up & continue to invest in improving your skills. You never know when the tides will turn. If things are not going well, keep your hopes up & continue your struggles, for you need to persevere to get to the better days.

Making this list each morning is very effective in part because it captures key elements from the science of goal seeking, emotional health & motivation. 1) 5 Gratitudes 2) Plans for the Day 3) Any Fears or Resentments 4) Things to Watch Out For 5) Things to Strive For

Personally, I suck at efficiency (doing things quickly). Here’s my coping mechanism and process for maximizing efficacy (doing the right things): 1) Wake up at least 1 hour before you have to be at a computer screen. E-mail is the mind killer. 2) Make a cup of tea (I like pu-erh) and sit down with a pen/pencil and paper. 3) Write down the 3-5 things—and no more—that are making you most anxious or uncomfortable. They’re often things that have been punted from one day’s to-do list to the next, to the next, to the next, and so on. Most important usually = most uncomfortable, with some chance of rejection or conflict. 4) For each item, ask yourself: – “If this were the only thing I accomplished today, would I be satisfied with my day?” – “Will moving this forward make all the other to-do’s unimportant or easier to knock off later?” 5) Look only at the items you’ve answered “yes” to for at least one of these questions. 6) Block out at least 2-3 hours to focus on ONE of them for today. Let the rest of the urgent but less important stuff slide. It will still be there tomorrow. 7) TO BE CLEAR: Block out at least 2-3 HOURS to focus on ONE of them for today. This is ONE BLOCK OF TIME. Cobbling together 10 minutes here and there to add up to 120 minutes does not work. 8) If you get distracted or start procrastinating, don’t freak out and downward spiral; just gently come back to your ONE to-do. Congratulations! That’s it. This is the only way I can create big outcomes despite my never-ending impulse to procrastinate, nap, and otherwise fritter away my days with bullshit. If I have 10 important things to do in a day, it’s 100% certain nothing important will get done that day. On the other hand, I can usually handle 1 must-do item and block out my lesser behaviors for 2-3 hours a day.