The myth-busts, hot takes, explainers, and tools worth keeping.
“I love people who tell me they have a five-year plan I think it's just stupidest thing”
“imagine five years ago if you had said what my Five-Year Plan is you would never have guessed where you are today”
“if you're producing results and you are productive and profitable and your people are succeeding nobody will care if you look tired”
“no one has hired you for what you look like”
“I like to think that productivity is really dream oriented that everyone should have a dream”
“choose the right dream and then productivity will make total sense to you”
“no one pays as much attention to you as you think they do”
“I can't even remember what my husband was wearing that night”
“the eight hours of sleep is probably seven hours of sleep and one hour of occupying the bed in a non-productive way”
“an hour even over the course of a year is 365 hours divide that by 24 you suddenly found days of your life”
“the only feeling I was consumed with was regret”
“I instantly understood that I was 22 years old and I had failed to do anything with my life that I had wanted to do”
“my wife wanted to play the guitar and then she quickly realized you know what the ukulele is better than the guitar”
“you don't think the fact that you've been writing stories ever since you were 17 that you've written every single day of your life since…”
“it's that like work you're doing that you don't realize you're doing that might someday pile into something that changes your life”
“but I didn't feel any regret because I didn't know at the moment that I was dying”
“but they didn't change my life I did not change my life at 12 and I did not change my life at 17”
“after you're homeless and in jail and you have a gun to your head and you think you're going to be in prison for 10…”
“she says that's like a loophole that you're exploiting and I said yes now you understand”
“it is the pursuit of the next thing that is so joyous to me”
“I see sort of complacency and satisfaction as stagnation and death”
“I would just pick something and start moving in that direction because it's a lot easier to change direction when you're moving than when you're…”
“and they're like well what if it's bad I said then take it down”
“we just move on with our lives right we don't worry about the failures”