Things to come back to when I’m feeling meh

A healthy, well-adjusted person processes their emotions, rather than avoiding or subduing them.

The wisest people I know all believe this: you must switch between modes. Between logic and mystery. Precision and intuition. Heart-centered and head-centered. Structure and surrender. It’s not either/or—it’s dancing between them that matters.

When you outsource the doing, you also outsource the learning.

• When you interact with a company from the outside you see it as a unitary thing with an intention.


• You might experience the company as jerking you around capriciously.


• But the company is actually a swarm.


• More like a swarm of bees with a sheet draped over them.


• It doesn’t have a brain, it is an emergent swarm.


• It doesn’t have its own goals, it does not

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So if you’ve been deep in productivity mode, try staring at the stars for an hour. If you’ve been floating in the clouds, go build a spreadsheet. Not just because balance is a virtue, but because crossing the boundary teaches you something you can’t learn any other way.

It’s not weakness to step out of your lane. It’s genius.

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Information addiction is real and while an ‘aha!’ moment feels good... it often doesn’t lead anywhere useful

treat compute as COGS, UX as moat, and rapid iteration as life support.