“If you want a new world, start making it right now, in whatever you are doing.” This is the best advice I ever had, it came from Brian Eno. If you imagine the world you would like to be in and start making objects, systems and collaborations that belong to that world, that world comes into being.
TIME ASSETS are actions or choices you make today that will save you time in the future.Software is a classic example of a time asset. You can write a program one time today and it will run processes for you over and over again every day afterward. You pay an upfront investment of time and get a payoff each day afterward.
Most people’s mental models of energy are flawed: they think there’s a ‘tank’ of energy that gets depleted as you spend it. This may be roughly true for physical energy, but mental energy is different:
spending
mental energy on things that you consider productive or important
gives
you more mental energy for other things: a positive feedback loop.... See more
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A clip from my exchange with Harley Finkelstein (@harleyf), President of Shopify and entrepreneur who started his first business at 13. We explored his iconoclastic journey from DJ to leader of one of the world’s most transformative tech companies.
Episode 878.