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a common complaint of prioritization is that we’re only doing things that happen to have deadlines, instead of things that matter. “Urgent, but not important” tends to win over “Important, but not urgent,” if we’re not paying attention.
Some people think that in order to find meaning in their life they need to go on endless spiritual retreats and soul searching journeys and take psychedelics, but those will not solve for meaning in the same way that making commitments will. They might help you clarify which commitments to make, but if you don’t make commitments, you won’t have
... See moreIf the world was full of probabilistic thinkers, no one would build the next SpaceX or Tesla. The best founders put it all on the line. You want to be a probabilistic thinker as an investor, but a deterministic thinker as an entrepreneur.
our society is increasingly splintered between those who’ve never experienced financial stress and those forced to live with it daily.
So sometimes, we quit. We quit the job thinking wrongly that the next company will be so much better. We quit the startup because it’s apparently not working. We just get tired, and why shouldn’t we be tired and why shouldn’t we quit? Life’s too short and all that.
But the ones who eventually succeed are the ones who plodded through the 5,999... See more
But the ones who eventually succeed are the ones who plodded through the 5,999... See more