The myth-busts, hot takes, explainers, and tools worth keeping.
“the answer is like is is actually in a lot of these like these things that people talk about which is just like action bias…”
“Ali's not like a a superhero of some kind with some un unreachable skills it's just like his mindset is very good”
“the speed at which you move through life is just so much quicker than everyone else it's like you read faster and you learn stuff…”
“that kind of speed of thought and that kind of cutting through overthinking that I think allows you to condense like 40 years of progress…”
“you think things can be done quicker than they can”
“to operate at 100% all the time is super [ __ ] tiring”
“you're putting that at risk by by showing people that you um care about something else and have bigger dreams for yourself”
“if you don't ever try and pursue your dreams you can never fail”
“it's an attitude to money that's around I get what I am given um which is not at all the attitude that any entrepreneur has”
“agency is like another thing that's like very natural in some to some people and is not to some people”
“big numbers seem a lot less like scary than they used to”
“in my my personal life living off my salary I'm still quite like scarcity minded”
“I started off being a football coach um as like a volunteer football coach for about nine months for Arsenal Football Club”
“Consulting seems like a kind of legit thing that people do um and it's like a good way to kind of get experience in like…”
“I started my YouTube channel in like early October 2021 and then I told my manager that I was going to quit around the 20th…”
“quitting my job was like exceptionally stressful something I've written a lot about in the newsletter”
“I've made two videos a week for the last five five weeks and in total over the last six months I've made around 40 videos…”
“it was nowhere near as organized as I thought it would be”
“I knew that being in the office every day would be a signal of intent the best way to learn um and a great way…”
“we kind of realized we were doing too many things um and that we needed to scrap cre preneur we needed to kind of double…”
“I just literally started writing shorts which at the time felt like honestly I was like this is so strange that this is where I've…”
“you just train the ability to listen fast and it's like there's not much difference between one times and 1.1 and then you slowly build…”
“I think even if you're moving EX slowly I think most people are still struggling to smell the roses”
“it's just so hard to look at a business that's not your own as your as your own”
“kind of seagull management where you come in you make a lot of noise you [ __ ] over everyone's heads and then you leave”
“I didn't really have any skills um even as a consultant I still I didn't really develop any skills”
“my newsletter had no market value it was just like my thoughts”
“a big thing is not being clear on why you're doing it so what is your goal is it um are you doing this to…”
“be very clear about why you have the YouTube channel in the first place”
“I've realized that it's really not for me actually that's obviously a secondary goal but the primary goal is actually just to do something cool”
“100,000 subscribers on the YouTube channel would actually mean more to me me than making money from the YouTube channel”