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enthusiasm matters!

• it's much easier to work on things that are exciting to you
• energy is a necessary input for progress

urgency is must

• slow is always fake and unclear. fast is clear and sometimes fake.
• a week is 2% of the year
• you have to put yourself on death ground, no it can not be done next week.
• going fast makes you focus on what's important; there's no time for bullshit

many people have conventional train of thought

• ask right questions, and ask well. it's better to avoid a predictable mistake than to make one.

the cultural prohibition on micromanagement is harmful

• great individuals should exercise their judgment
• the goal is not to avoid mistakes, the goal is to achieve unparalleled levels of excellence in a given area.
• the downsides are worth it.

smaller teams are better

• no room for mediocre people
• faster decisions, fewer meetings, more fun
• most tech companies are 2-10x overstaffed.
• the bottleneck in big projects is often less about resources and more about brainpower

improvement is the only way to get your dopamine

• better to get your dopamine from improving your ideas than from having them validated
• don't get tied down by invisible orthodoxy, the laws of physics are the only limit
• the price for agency is the permanent and final realisation that the passenger seat does not exist.