There are essentially two business models right now: boring, useful things that can print money and tastemaker brands that can brute force cultural relevancy. Dumb $ is funding the middle: stuff that is neither useful nor cool enough to make it past current startup headwinds.

the stuff you joke about (even ironically or whatever) has a way of shaping your reality so be careful and deliberate with that stuff. a lot of people out here fumbling their own bags by joking about outcomes they don’t want. you might as well joke about the outcomes you do want

My flow chart on the decision process I go through when deciding whether I want to do something. I’m making #dailyart https://t.co/rdkktjpYhb

The only way for life to not feel so hard is to just see how it goes The opposite of this is believing things are supposed to be a certain way, and that it's somehow bad if things are not You're this age, with this much money, at this stage, etc. Nothing is ever objectively… Show more

@QiaochuYuan A good friend once said to me, “I don’t know, I just feel like everything in my life isn’t how it ought to be.” I asked her, “well, have you tried changing everything?” In all seriousness, changing ourselves is very difficult and slow. Changing our environment is easier.

This hack will save you years on manifestation https://t.co/iMpbyz79Zq

sam altman on how to be successful https://t.co/TyIDiD7ru7

Pursuing a CAREER in the arts — any art, pick the art — takes a certain amount of delusion. Not as a hobby. Not for fun. But in the pursuit of an all-the-chips-in career. And I don't mean delusion in a derogatory manner. In this sense, it's a skill.

In my experience successful people are successful because they have such enormous personal problems that literally becoming the best in the world is less hard than solving them. So all the productivity and health life tips are totally missing the point….

one thing i have noticed about the best performers is delusional self belief. even the ones who appear humble or down to earth. if you really get to know them closely you will realise the way they talk to themselves inside their head is just different.