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This morning I grabbed breakfast tacos with a lively software engineer I met on twitter. The conversation was effortless and we had a ton in common. Then I drove home to find a couple of successful entrepreneurs hanging around the pool with my roomie. "How did you meet your
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“Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.” ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent [https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2359336] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This
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I'm always slightly scared that I'm not good enough to make a ton of money. That being able to accrue assets is this secret magical spell that some are gifted with at birth, and instead of being blessed by the money fairy, some crusty old sea
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I'm going to do it, y'all. I'm going to start a business. I have until January to figure out what that is and actually start. See you in Makerland soon!
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If you're thinking of starting a blog, but you're scared it'll be an embarrassing pile of crap, or if you already blog regularly but you're doubting yourself, I recommend checking out Tim Ferriss's original 2006/2007 blog [https://web.archive.
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I'm pretty decent at public speaking, and after today's talk to 200 people went super well, I figured I'd give some tips. Writing/Submitting your Talk * Know the vibe of the event and what people want * Understand what other speakers are likely to talk
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I unsubscribed from almost all of my newsletters this morning. I'm road tripping from Seattle to Houston, and I haven't checked my email for almost a week now. I was surprised to see how many of my emails are from newsletters, and how little I missed
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I met up with a twitter friend last week. We mostly talked about the people we knew. Who we followed and what they were doing and what we thought about it. The podcasts we listened to, the newsletters we subscribed to, the sites we regularly read. It was all about
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In the car today, trying to find a radio station, I flipped to a channel and heard, > Now here's what you need to know about Jesus. Man, I thought, how can there be anything new for us to know about Jesus? The story has been around for
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Today was my first time selling on Facebook Marketplace. Here's what I learned: * Add shipping options on larger items * Staged items sell quicker * It takes the same amount of effort to sell a $150 item, as it does a $10 item. * Everyone asks for a discount * If you&
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Two months ago, my personal blog averaged about one and a half visitors each day. Then I made my first submission to Hacker News, it hit the front page, and within five days 20,000 people visited my blog! That's crazy. So how did my story make it
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My June mantra is rest. My sleep schedule has been a mess for as long as I can remember. I've never been able to fall asleep quickly, I don't sleep well throughout the night, and I can't seem to wake up early no matter