I lost one of my hand written post-its when moving places, so i decided to digitize them.
“Work so hard it's unreasonable for you to fail”
“Go do something so great your network will emerge”
“The first step of any meaningful pursuit is to severely underestimate its difficulty”
“The way to get new ideas is to notice anomalies: what seems strange, or missing, or broken? Knowledge grows fractally. From a distance its edges look smooth, but when you learn enough to get close to one, you'll notice it's full of gaps. These gaps will seem obvious; it will seem inexplicable that no one has tried x or wondered about y. In the best case, exploring such gaps yields whole new fractal buds.”
“No one talks about how peaceful life gets when you're obsessed. 12 hour days feel effortless. Week days and weekends blend together. You wake up, log on, and by the time you check the clock it's time to sleep again. Runners call it the high. Athletes call it the zone. Writers call it flow. Whatever it is, it's beautiful.”
“Action produces information. Work reveals by itself”
“Being strong-willed is not enough, however. You also have to be hard on yourself. Someone who was strong-willed but self-indulgent would not be called determined. Determination implies your willfulness is balanced by discipline.”
“If you are doing something and it's easy that means it's not valuable. If it's easy, you didn't go hard enough. Go till it hurts. Push.”
“There is no substitute for the person who Knows What To Do”
“You make a choice and make it the best f*king decision you have made”
“Failure is essentially irrelevant unless it is catastrophic”
“You need to be stubborn on your vision, but very flexible on the details”