People underestimate compounding and long games. When people think “that’s not possible”, “you can’t do that”, “that won’t work”, it’s often because they’re imagining something like 5 years, 10 years. Things get very different when you have 50 year plans

“A heck of a lot of people will think it won’t work. But if you can picture yourself walking through each step, there’s a good chance you know what you’re doing. Just because something’s never been done before doesn’t mean it can’t be done.”

A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are.

People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt, giving up too early, and not pushing hard enough prevents most people from ever reaching a... See more

Surprising fact: To create something truly great you have to repeat a small number of powerful words over and over again

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 you’l... See more

It can be difficult to appreciate how much simply avoiding the standard ways of failing dramatically increases the odds of success.

After building +40 apps over the last decade, I think the most valuable skill is an ability to correctly sequence the things that need to validated for the concept to work. For example: 1. Users need to share the app X number times for the app to have a basis to grow 2. The shares then need to convert to downloads at X rate 3. Then, X% of users n... See more