How Future Billionaires Get Shit Done
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Creative work must to be done in 8-hour uninteruppted blocks.
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TODO list first. Meetings, emails and slack second.
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WRITE SHIT DOWN in meetings! Otherwise, it never happened.
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Have visible KPIs, on a screen 24/7.
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Willpower isn't enough. You need tools as well.
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The two things that ridiculously de-risk your startup are:
- Talk to you customers.
- Build and launch products.
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Pick one avenue and stick to it. An equally competent team that is all-in will always beat you.
Creative work must to be done in 8-hour uninteruppted blocks.
By creative we mean programmers, musicians, actors...
Eliminate meetings. Define a goal, and follow up each week on it instead.
The makes schedule works for managers as well.
TODO list first. Meetings, emails and slack second.
Do everything in the TODO list before moving on to other things.
All advice for effective meetings can be summed up in one sentence...
WRITE SHIT DOWN! Otherwise, it never happened.
The worst thing is having meetings because nothing was written down from the last one.
Notebooks are good for ideas. Todo apps are a must.
Writing things in a notebooks = gone forever.
Have visible KPIs, on a screen 24/7.
Become obsessed with the numbers, so you know them by heart.
You should know instantly if you are having an up or down week.
Willpower isn't enough. You need tools as well.
Super productive people are agressively abnormal with protecting their time.
There are two sets of tools:
- Organize your time better.
- Protect your time.
The collection of mentors, startup events, tutorials... It makes it look like your are doing work.
The two things that ridiculously de-risk your startup are:
1. Talk to you customers.
2. Build and launch products.
Juggling multiple things at once like thinking about grad school, looking for job offers, investing in crypto, joining accelerators and talking about doing a startup...
Pick one avenue and stick to it. An equally competent team that is all-in will always beat you.