I’ve passed on many good financial investments. I’m not interested in something if it’s just about earning money. I invest on an ideological basis. I invest in the world I want to see built.

For those who aren’t good at engineering—well, get good at content. Content is as important as engineering nowadays. Every new company could have a founding influencer on par with the founding engineer. Today, a founding engineer and a founding influencer are building a company. Tomorrow, a founding influencer and a founding engineer may be

The ideal is you are a full-stack engineer and full-stack creator. That’s using both your right brain and left brain.

Learning with intent to use filters down information, and you can snap things into use immediately. That’s why I think a purpose-driven life is good. You have a purpose, and you think often about what that purpose is.

What you choose to load into your brain first thing in the morning is the most precious, precious space. Perhaps your first few hours should be offline with pen and paper, writing things out. Some offline time is good, so you don’t just immediately jack into the internet. I write a lot of stuff longhand because it forces focus. There are zero

You have 168 hours per week, ~112 awake. Substitute capital for time, technology for both. Avoid travel. Cancel meetings. Focus on doing.

Doing more than one thing is very hard. You can do one big thing, and you can attach lots of subroutines to that. But if you’re trying to do more than one big thing, you have to decide every single moment of the day, am I spending time on A or B?

The best entrepreneurs are logical enough to think of unpopular truths and then social enough to make those truths popular.

From a founding and investing standpoint, you have to consider strategic questions. What kinds of platforms are there? What new platforms cure such a pain point that people get on it? Then what else can be deployed on that platform?