Alexey
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Alexey
To return to information overload: this means treating your "to read" pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it). After all, you presumably don't feel overwhelmed by all the unread books in the British Library – and not because t
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If you're going to try,
go all the way.
There is no other feeling like that.
You will be alone with the gods,
and the nights will flame with fire.
You will ride life straight to perfect laughter.
It's the only good fight there is.
— Charles Bukowski, Factotum
And that’s what I do. That’s it. And if I could just muster up the energy, God willing, to make a couple more, one more maybe, and that’s it, OK? That’s as far as I got. You keep going until you can’t. But what I mean is that you gotta rip it out of your skull and your guts. To find out what the hell you really – what do you really feel should be s... See more
You need to delegate what you think you are best at. You need to stand back, watch the work you used to once doing best, being done by someone else, and resist the urge to interfere. Results won't be exactly as you would like them to be, but soon you will have a company that can do more than you, and earn more than you alone. You graduate from bein... See more
You are the bottleneck. Your team progresses as fast you can. That means the bigger your team gets, the more you need to do to keep the moving forward. That math doesn't scale. Delegate your decision making power to free yourself from becoming the bottleneck of your own company.
Am I choosing this to avoid pain now? You might think working at a company gets you the experience you need to run your own. Truth is, you will never know what you need to learn until you begin. You can't learn how to swim while standing on the beach. Don't waste the best years of your life, your 20s or 30s working for someone else. Use that power ... See more
The same is true about most businesses you admire. They might seem in order from the far but within, there's always a degree of chaos present. And that's ok. That's needed. It's part of the work. We all start out blind, hit a bunch of walls until we learn how to see. We learn to see which walls to avoid, which ones to go around and which ones to br... See more