Reminders for myself

Curation leads to expertise. Through curation, you better understand yourself, history, and unlikely connections across fields. Increasingly, we will curate sources and ideas and let AI handle execution or assembly. Honing an ability to curate and arrange these sources will cultivate depth and meaning in your work—tuning the machine to your specifi... See more

Worrying is a cheap replacement for caring. Complaining is a cheap replacement for fixing. Outrage is a cheap replacement for supporting.

It’s easy to tear down. It’s much harder to build up.

Personal growth is the process of learning to lie to ourselves less.

"One way to stand out is to look for pockets of low competition.

Wake up early—less traffic, fewer people.

Go deeper or narrower in your field—less noise, more space.

People are drawn to where it is crowded. Look for the quiet spaces inside your areas of interest. Excellence often hides at the edges."

“Perfection is impossible. In the 1526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches. Now, I have a question for you.

What percentage of points do you think I won in those matches? Only 54%.

In other words, even top-ranked tennis players win barely more than half of the points they play. When you lose every second point on ... See more

You have just six seconds to capture someone’s attention — but if you interest them, you earn another twenty to thirty seconds.

Practically, this means you have about thirteen words to hook them and another thirty to forty to deliver your most compelling information.

If your email exceeds 100 words, allocate your editing time wisely: dedicate 40% to ... See more

“Don’t talk, unless you can improve upon the silence.”

– Jorge Luis Borges