"New goals don't deliver new results. New lifestyles do. And a lifestyle is not an outcome, it is a process. For this reason, all of your energy should go into building better habits, not chasing better results. Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects [...]
"Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your identity. This is why habits are crucial. They cast repeated votes for being a certain type of person. Build habits [...]
Real wealth is not having to do things certain things, like: not worrying about jerks claiming your attention, time and energy; not being locked into status games and living based on other's expectations; not feeling like you have to say “yes”; Real wealth is about freedom. Money can help achieve these things, but there are [...]
Something I can do or create that would bring me more meaning in life is . . . The activities that I currently do that bring me the most meaning are... The activities or projects that I should stop doing because they are not bringing me any sense of meaning, are . . . If [...]
"An expert is a person who has found out by painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field." Niels Bohr
"The way someone else perceives what you do is a result of their own experiences (which you can’t control), their own preferences (which you can’t predict), and their own expectations (which you don’t set). If your choices don’t match their expectations, that is their concern, not yours." James Clear
This is a Quora question I was asked. My answer is as follows. In short, understanding marketing and sales conversion metrics and analyzing in spreadsheets Why Is This Important? A startup requires developing products, producing them, creating marketing copy and creative, all in context of a support structure with people, systems, suppliers/contractors, etc. All of [...]
Just a general business truism that I try to follow.
Awareness is often enough to motivate change. Merely writing down your problems may spark ideas for possible solutions. The process starts with seeing reality clearly. Via James Clear and Atomic Habits.
I use this specific analysis framework for startups, with additional sections for helping analyze web 3/cryptocurrency startups. It is more geared towards analysis of cryptocurrency startup/early-stage projects, but many of the questions can apply to any startup. See this screenshot. This screenshot is from the form used to submit the data to my [...]
