strong intuition doesn’t mean intuition is right.
ppl good at thinking think that thinking is everything; people good at doing think that doing is everything. doers dismiss thinkers & thinkers are scared of doers.
if you have a thought and you don’t like it, you can tell your brain that you don’t like it and drop it.
send cold emails. assume that everyone is a friend.
what were you thinking about in the shower?
you can’t improve what you can’t measure. if you want to improve on ground-truth, measure ground-truth
who do you want to be more like? write a list
every document must have a specific goal written at the top of it
close eyes when thinking
if someone is successful but there are no specific problems they solved, it’s probably because they’re good at persuading people rather than solving problems.
utility monsters are real
luck favors the prepared
most decisions are fake. we are not aware of options
most decisions have a silver bullet & are autoresolved if set up right.
what will you regret tomorrow?
when a prisoner at auschwitz was trying to escape the gas chamber, other prisoners alerted the guards
if you weren’t at Los Alamos in 1943, you probably thought nuclear weapons were 20 years away
risks are less risky than you think. take as many as you can.
be loyal to your friends
the richest people lose the most money, the most connected people get rejected the most, the most successful people fail the most