Stay Focused, Support Each Other Amid Publishing Challenges
Been a rough week in publishing (it’s Tuesday, Lemon), and I’m reminding myself of the advice I try to give everyone else. Focus on what you can control. I’m doing my best to check in with colleagues, see what support I can offer. And plotting and planning with my creatives, about what’s next. Be angry and frustrated, but don’t lose focus, and don’t lose each other. ❤️
Excellence Comes From Process, Consistency, and Compounding
PROCESS / EXCELLENCE Excellence isn’t winning every day 📉📈 It’s: ⚙️Showing up with a process 🔁 Staying consistent through ups & downs 🎯 Compounding over time Red day ≠ broken system
Focus Requires Self‑Awareness, Clarity, and Discipline
Focus isn't a single skill. It's a combination of: - Self-awareness - Clarity on your goal - Protecting your time - Eliminating distractions - Saying no to good ideas And the discipline to ignore noise.
Ask: Caution or Ego? Ego Usually Blocks Innovation
When I feel resistance to trying something new with augmented development, I've learned to ask myself: Is this caution, or is this ego? Usually it's ego. Still Burning Ep 1: https://t.co/lOkTGmJeCc
Play Fully on the Field, Detach Off It
When you're on the field, play as if nothing else matters. When you're off the field, remember that the game doesn't matter at all.
Ego, Not Fear, Blocks Starting From Zero
Most people aren’t scared to start. They’re scared to look like they’re starting from zero. 🫢 That’s ego talking, not fear. Learn to tell them apart, and suddenly the path forward gets a lot clearer.
Early Caffeine‑fueled, Phone‑free Writing Boosts Productivity
Current morning routine that is working well: • 5 AM wake up • Hydrate with electrolytes and creatine • Craft my own double espresso • Write by hand for 90 minutes • Walk to cafe to cram second espresso • Write again for 60 minute • Leave...
Secure Striving Beats Fearful Effort for Real Growth
There are two kinds of striving: secure and insecure. The insecure variety comes from fear. Secure striving comes from wanting to win, to do your best, but realizing that it’s not the end of the world if you fall short. https://thegrowtheq.com/the-power-and-danger-of-caring-deeply/
Did You Really Show Up for Yourself Yesterday?
Good morning ☀️ Quick accountability check— Did you show up for yourself yesterday? Be real
Act Boldly in Small Ways; Action Breaks Fear Cycles
Act boldly in small ways. One fearful thought spins off another and another. But action leads to action.
Voice‑First Workweek Shows AI Dictation Viable
Three people on my team tried to go an entire work week without typing The rules were simple: - Use Wispr Flow (an AI voice dictation app) for everything - Emails, Slack, AI prompts, project coordination - No typing unless absolutely unavoidable In this...
Productivity Isn't About Word Count, It's About Momentum
A quick word on word count goals: Setting word count goals can help you keep you writing on track, but it can also be stifling. I've seen authors beat themselves up because they set out to write 1,000 words in their session...
Detach From Outcomes, Embrace Incremental Progress Through Tiny Steps
It's sounds counterintuitive, but become unattached to the outcome. Become OK with it not happening. Then you're free to experiment. Do the next thing well. Transformation is just the hundreds of tiny steps. Yet a lot can happen during one...
Stay Resilient: Embrace Challenges and Choose to Be Different
Life is always testing you. You're no different to anyone else. You will want to quit. You will have excuses. Be different. Hold strong.
One Bad Moment Doesn't Define Your Entire Day
You didn't have a bad day. You had a bad 15 minutes that you let define the rest of your day. Stop letting one bad moment run the whole day.
Small Intentional Choices Turn Dad Bod Into CEO Mindset
How do you go from recognizing a need for change to becoming an expert in the mechanics of transformation? 📈🚀 Tomorrow on Tippie Leads, we’re joined by Associate Professor of Instruction Rob Rouwenhorst . Before Rob became our resident expert...
Reward High Performers, Remote Teams Thrive and Grow
Remote work gets a lot of hate. People working less, taking breaks, being lazy, etc. That hasn't been the case in my experience. My best people are throwing down 60 hour weeks and our companies are growing. If you create a culture where you...
Master Panic: Do Nothing When Instinct Screams Action
Q1 was brutal. I've also been losing 100 lbs through fasting. Both taught me the same thing: Pain is not the danger. The panic response to pain is. When you fast, the hunger plateaus if you sit with it. When markets drop, the...
Fill Your Calendar with Positives Before Negativity Returns
Remember: it’s not enough to remove the negative. That simply creates a void. Get the positive things on the calendar ASAP, lest they get crowded out by the bullshit and noise that will otherwise fill your days.
Master One Skill Online, Replace Your Salary
Most highly competent people could replace their salary by talking about one thing they do exceptionally well on the internet every day for 24-36 months.
Embrace Your Weirdness; It's Your Irreplaceable Product
Naval Ravikant has talked for years about the idea of productizing yourself. I keep coming back to that phrase, especially now. With so many people worried about AI taking their job, replacing parts of what they do, or even dulling...
Ask These 10 Questions to Design a Better Month
10 questions I ask myself at the end of each month (to set up a better month ahead) 1️⃣ What did I do this month that actually mattered to me? 2️⃣ Where did my time go that I didn’t intend it to? 3️⃣ What...
Stack Needed Tasks Between Two Rewards for Productivity
I've read Atomic Habits 3 times. Chapter 8 unleashes a real productivity hack It uses habit stacking + temptation bundling to crush your day: 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮: 1. After {current habit}, I will {habit needed} 2. After {habit needed}, I will {something I want} 𝗘𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲: 1. After drinking morning...
Saying No Is the Entrepreneur’s Greatest Skill
Found out (the hard way) that the most important words in entrepreneurship are “No. No. No.”
Even Empty Beginnings Teach More than Never Starting
You're not afraid of starting. You're afraid of starting and having nothing to show for it. But nothing to show for it beats nothing at all. At least the first one teaches you something.
Act Now: Build Early, Stop Overthinking, Use AI
Advice I needed at 22: • Build earlier • Stop overthinking • Pick one path • Use AI, don’t fear it • Show your work You don’t need more time. You need more action.
Master What You Can, Avoid Futile Effort
Control what you can to gain control over what you can. To do anything else is, in the purest sense of the word, a waste.
Embrace Losses to Reduce Fear and Boost Risk‑Taking
“Don’t fear losing. It hurts the first 50 times but then you’ll be able to play with less emotion. You will take more risks.” — Elon Musk https://t.co/OV1z47GgGz
Stay Focused: Ignore Opinions, Keep Your Blinders On
Advice from Jimmy Iovine: “I don’t give a f*ck what anyone thinks. When you are a racehorse, the reason they put blinders on these things is because if you look at the horse on the left or the horse on the right,...
Find Rhythm, Reduce Overwhelm, Embrace Clarity
Your day isn’t meant to feel like a chaotic to-do list that never ends. It’s meant to have rhythm. A time to focus, a time to rest, and a time to actually enjoy life. When everything has its place, overwhelm fades…...
Start Your Personal Growth Journey Before the Sale Ends
You don’t need to rush. You don’t need to compare. And you don’t need to follow someone else’s timeline. Growth is personal. And the best systems are the ones that fit your life. But sometimes… all it takes is one decision to begin. 🌸 Today is...
Decade of Early Nights Ends: Laptops in Bed
We had a decade of no laptops in bed in this house and going to sleep by 10pm, and that’s over
Finding Purpose After Job Loss Through Community Learning
First day after my office closed… I ran to my computer out of habit ready to log in for my shift— then it hit me. I don’t have a job anymore. That moment felt heavy. But then I opened this app… and realized I still have something...
Build a Core Skills Library, Save Hours Weekly
I reclaimed 2+ hours every week after building my core Skills library. All because I stopped re-explaining the same things to Claude every session. https://t.co/SQfo2UmHL0
Pick up the Phone: Turn Dreams Into Action
Most people never pick up the phone and call. And that’s what separates sometimes the people who do things from the people who just dream about them. #SteveJobs #Quotes (Santa Clara Valley Historical Association) #MondayMotivation #MondayThoughts https://t.co/QzM5LEI9us
Morning Handwritten Pages Dissolve Creative Blocks
All of your creative problems will melt away with 3 handwritten journal pages, first thing in the morning, before you touch your phone.
Limit Strong Opinions, Stay Selectively Ignorant, Reduce Stress
To reduce your stress, try not to have strong and loud opinions about everything. Smart people are selectively ignorant about most things, and focused on some things.
Colorful Screens Hijack Dopamine, Grayscale Restores Balance
After one week with ALL my screens in black and white, I'm never going back. It's striking how much brighter screen colors are than the actual world. You can feel the rush of dopamine. Nice to be getting my brain back.
Every Day Builds the Future Version of Yourself
Go to sleep knowing today wasn’t wasted It was building the version of you you’ve been trying to become.
Fear Wasting Time, Not the Grind
Year 1 → They laugh at your "routine" Year 2 → They call you obsessed Year 3 → They say it's not sustainable Year 4 → They ask for your schedule Don't fear the grind itself. Fear wasting another year not doing it.
Puncture Reality: Focused Action Creates New Worlds
Bringing a project into the world requires entering a new version of reality before it even exists. If you merely press on the boundary with your finger, it will barely yield. You must focus your efforts into a needle that...
Your Learning Capacity Exceeds Your Current Knowledge
If I could give my younger self one piece of advice, it would be this: Your capacity to learn is far greater than your current knowledge. Many people let the need to be "smart" get in the way of open-mindedness. But...
Consistent Excellence Beats Occasional Greatness
Anyone can be great occasionally. When everything comes together and you're in the zone, performance is easy. What's really hard is being pretty darn good, day after day. Raise the floor. Not just the ceiling.
Momentum Grows One Decision at a Time
Momentum is built one decision at a time. Stop overthinking and just take the next step.
Use Your Calendar to Signal Work‑Day End
I discuss how to trick your brain with @lewishowes by using the power of your calendar. Our brain takes some things quite seriously, like our calendars. Here’s how to use that to detach from work at the end of the...
Design Daily Routines to Automate Healthy Habits
As you start your week, plan your days to create predictability. Build systems to avoid willpower use. > finish eating 4hr before bed > mentally prepare, turn screens off 30 min before bed > read a book 10 min before sleep...
Confront Unwanted Truths; Good Things Resolve Themselves
Most people fight seeing what’s true when it’s not what they want it to be. That’s bad, because it is more important to understand and deal with the bad stuff since the good stuff will take care of itself. #principleoftheday...
Launch Rough OKRs Now, Learn Through Action
Ever spent so long overthinking your goals, the quarter started without them? I see it every single day. Diligent people get stuck because we’re afraid of getting it wrong. But only in retrospect do we have a chance of knowing whether our...
Hang with Me, Unlock Your Hidden Potential
If you hang out with me too long I'll likely brainwash you into believing in yourself and that you're capable of more than you're doing today... fair warning.
Fitness Demands Time: Accept It, Improve Faster
There’s a cost to everything. For fitness, the cost is time. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you actually improve.