Reminders for myself

Worrying is a cheap replacement for caring. Complaining is a cheap replacement for fixing. Outrage is a cheap replacement for supporting.

It’s easy to tear down. It’s much harder to build up.

The person who carefully designs their daily routine goes further than the person who negotiates with themselves every day.

Let inertia work for you.

It can be difficult to appreciate how much simply avoiding the standard ways of failing dramatically increases the odds of success.

Rushing has a built-in excuse. Rushing pushes us to skip steps or ship junk.

But hurrying acknowledges how precious this moment in time is. It honors our good fortune to be in this place, able to contribute something generous

"A critical quality to develop in life is the willingness to try. You simply must find enough confidence to give it a go. The human mind is fabulous at learning. You will get better at whatever you practice. But before you can develop the skill to succeed, you must find the courage to attempt."

I think one thing that is a really important thing to strive for is being internally driven, being driven to compete with yourself, not with other people. If you compete with other people, you end up in this mimetic trap, and you sort of play this tournament, and if you win, you lose. But if you’re competing with yourself, and all you’re trying to ... See more