17—300lbs; health collapsed chasing med school. Treated what top docs couldn't, journaled millions of words & realized I was playing too small a game. 20—down 140lbs; building leverage through tech & media. My guiding principles 👇

The long road is the shortcut because the shortcut never gets you there.

Insanity: following a system, then complaining you got the results the system was designed to produce.

Reflection: that's the difference between 10.000 repetitions, and 10.000 iterations; the difference between blind grinding, and true growth. Learning occurs when a change in behavior does—iteration involves just that.

You’re the youngest you’re ever going to be—unless you’re @bryan_johnson.

By the time you’re certain, the opportunity is probably gone: if you're 80% sure, just start—or wait until you're 100% sure, and never build anything worth building.

You only have to win once: you are one win away from your dream life. All the times I didn't succeed in restoring my health? None of them matter. What matters is the one time I did succeed—there's no reason to fix what works.

The talk gets them in; the walk makes them stay: narrative gets you a purchase; value gets you a customer.

No wind is favorable if you don't know where you're going: life is more about which game to play than how to play it.

There will be a last time you can work this hard towards your goals: make sure the ones that come before it aren’t wasted—the time will pass either way.

Fool: Apple Notes. Midwit: Notion → Evernote → Roam → Obsidian → ... Genius: Apple Notes.

Winners have their eyes on the field, not the scoreboard: checking your analytics hundreds of times a day isn’t doing you any favors.

You can have anything you want, just not everything, not all at once: the price of doing everything at once is doing nothing well.

On the worst days, I ask myself: where would I be if only I followed my own advice?

Opportunity cost: that's why I wear the same black outfit, eat the same food, and buzz my head.

Compounding only works if there’s something worth compounding upon: first explore, then invest.

Envy & inspiration: where would you be if only you swapped the former for the latter?

Don’t exercise leverage something you shouldn’t be doing in the first place: running into a wall is a problem, and doing so faster is no solution.

Life + reflection = growth: you are the sum of your genetics, your experiences, and your reflections upon them.

Only doing the thing is doing the thing. Thinking about the thing isn’t doing the thing. Planning the thing isn’t doing the thing. Talking about the thing isn’t doing the thing. Venting to ChatGPT about the thing isn’t doing the thing. Only doing the thing is doing the thing.

Use X the right way: time-block active time + only check notifications at predefined time; saves me more time, energy and headspace than I could ever describe to you.