Andrew Tam

One of the hardest and loneliest battles you’ll have to fight as you work to build the life you want is maintaining unwavering self belief that you will make it despite having *nothing* to show for it over a 2-3 year period before you see “overnight” success. You’ll feel like an imposter telling others what you’re building and who you believe... See more

My most hippy belief I think is true is that changing your vocabulary changes how you perceive reality. You're just prompt engineering your brain all day. Try shuffling out these 5 words: 1. Decision --> Experiment 2. Problem --> Puzzle 3. Relax --> Energise 4. Failure -->

An interesting observation in Maslow's work on self-actualized people is that they tend to be less "introspective" than others. Meaning they spend less time thinking about themselves and their feelings. But they are more attuned to their inner compass when *acting on the world*.

People would rather apply to 100 companies using the same low-effort resume and remain unemployed for six months than take the time to apply to five good companies with a solid, custom application. Everyone, and I mean literally everyone, applies to jobs using the same boring PDF document based on a free template they... See more