Be Too Busy to ‘Do Coffee’

It’s taken me a while to warm up to the idea that thinking is working, and that what is actually work can at first look lazy. I love Naval [Ravikant’s tweet], “Be too busy to do coffee while keeping an uncluttered calendar.” More often than not, spending two hours thinking about a problem is a much better use of my time than taking two calls withou... See more

For example, one of the most important things to me is a continuous stream of new requests for my services. As long as this demand for “me” exceeds the available supply of “me,” I can demand and get premium fees, choose clients I like and blow off those I don’t, choose projects that interest me and reject those that don’t, confidently turn away bus

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