- Whenever you have a choice between being kind, or being right, be kind. No exceptions. Don't confuse kindness with weakness.Take the long term view. - Don't measure your life by someone else's ruler. Define your metric of success. What's seen on the outside is different from what's on the inside. - Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. - Always demand a deadline because it weeds out the extraneous and the ordinary. A deadline prevents you from trying to make it perfect, so you to make it different. Different is better. - Don't aim to be the best, aim to be the only. - It is easier to imagine how things break than it is to see how they work; entrepreneurs are lauded because they go against this grain. - What effect do you want to have on people is one of the most important questions to consider when you are making something. - Separate the process of creating from improving. You can't write and edit or sculpt and polish or make and analyse at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. - The patience you need for big things, is developed for little things. - Get good at being corrected without being offended. - A worthy goal in life is to become impactful without becoming predictable. That is, do things that AIs have trouble imitating. You want to be unmodelable by algorithms and therefore, irreplacable. - **Optimism is a skill that bestows resilience and adaptability** #people