Wednesday, August 4, 2021

August 4, 2021

"You’re going to die one day, and none of this is going to matter. So enjoy yourself. Do something positive. Project some love. Make someone happy. Laugh a little bit. Appreciate the moment. And do your work."  

@naval


Fact-checkers are just fake authorities anointed by the media, according to fact-checkers.


"Don’t spend your time making other people happy. Other people being happy is their problem. It’s not your problem. If you are happy, it makes other people happy."  

@naval


Be disciplined when you need it the least so you’ll have habit when you need it the most.


"Value your time. It is all you have. It’s more important than your money. It’s more important than your friends. It is more important than anything. Your time is all you have. Do not waste your time."  

@naval


"If you want to be successful, surround yourself with people who are more successful than you are, but if you want to be happy, surround yourself with people who are less successful than you are."  

@naval


Localism heuristic: move to the place you'd like to change the least.


"We say “peace of mind” but really what we want is peace from mind."  

@naval


"You’re dying and being reborn at every moment. It’s up to you whether to forget or remember that."  

@naval


"First they ban accounts. Then, they ban apps. Finally, they will block websites." -

@naval


Life improves the moment you become a producer and contributor instead of a consumer and a leech.


"If you don’t want to go to the meeting right now, your future self won’t want to go to it later, either."  

@naval


Being unwilling to ask for help will constantly place you in positions where you need It.


Direction over speed. Consistency over intensity. Endurance over strength. Action over imagination. Growth over fixed.  

Life's about who makes it not about who makes it the fastest.

 





Tuesday, August 3, 2021

August 3, 2021

"I don’t believe in specific goals. Scott Adams famously said, Set up systems, not goals.' Use your judgment to figure out what kinds of environments you can thrive in, and then create an environment around you so you’re statistically likely to succeed." 

Archaeologists guess the Pyramids of Giza to be about ~4,600 years old as Carbon-14 can’t be used to estimate their age. An ostrich egg found in a tomb near Aswan shows the 3 Pyramid structures side by side. Carbon dating show it is ~7,000 years old. An interesting quagmire.

"One advantage of getting older - you become more decisive."
@naval
Imagine being on the wrong side of history while it repeats itself. Like failing an open-book test.

“Startups don't die when they run out of cash, they die when the founders run out of energy."
@naval
"Trade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first."




banana stalks to blue jeans in China

 Video here: https://x.com/i/status/2029471117283590406