do less to do more
like Jonny Ive said, “what have you said no to today?” focus is the hardest thing in the world
do less to do more
2. Don’t divide your attention: focusing on one thing yields increasing returns for each unit of effort.
At a micro level, an extra hour of focus on the current project has a much higher return than an hour on something new, or worse, 5 minutes each on 12 new things. Before you ever do something new, you should understand the opportunity cost vs.
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Peter Thiel
This relates to nick sleep thought of i've got your single best idea than it's obviously where you should be spending all your time on
The consumer economy nurtures this sweet tooth. There’s just so much money to be made in selling people new paths—new equipment, new books, new possibilities. The last thing marketers want is for people to get their excitement and fulfillment from what they already have access to. They would hate for you to discover the incredible wealth remaining
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ick says if it's a single best thought you have ever had in your life it needs to dominate everything because you're not going to get many insights like that and
if it's your single best Insight your single best idea then obviously it's what you should spending all your time on
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
"Genius has the fewest moving parts." – Nick Sleep
For me, the ability to concentrate, you know, to get fascinated with something and really dig into it, which as I got older I could choose what I concentrated on. And when I was in high school, I was okay at it, but I remember being down in my room thinking, "Okay, I'm going to work on my homework and do really well this year." But then t
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why is this list not the same as the current Nomad portfolio
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
This makes me think about what I'm interested in and what I subscribed to and spend my time listening to do and doing.
And cutting down everything until I can focus on what matters.
You really want to do everything with quality as that is where the satisfaction and peace is." – Nick Sleep
Inspired by Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
We also regard time as a kind of commodity, as if it’s fungible, as if 10 blocks of 10 minutes is the same as one chunk of 100 minutes. In human terms, this is absolutely not true. “The mere consciousness of an engagement will sometimes worry a whole day.” That’s Charles Dickens. In other words, if you try and break up your day into lots of little ... See more