Keep an incredibly high bar for who you work with.

My number one predictor of whether or not a company will find product-market fit: High shipping cadence.

The best founders I’ve found are the ones who are very long-term thinkers. Even decisions that maybe they shouldn’t care that much about early on, they fix it because they are not building a house, they’re putting bricks in the foundation of the skyscraper, at least in their minds.

A lot of people think you can go to school and you can study for how to make money, but the reality is, there’s no skill called “business”.

It’s only after you’re bored that you have the great ideas. It’s never going to be when you’re stressed, or busy, running around or rushed. Make the time.

Networking is overrated. Become first and foremost a person of value and the network will be available whenever you need it.

Unnecessary meetings (and most are) are a mutually-assured-destruction of time. Learning how to avoid them is a prerequisite of doing anything great.

At the end of the day, we’re all founders. We’re all meant to work for ourselves. We’re not meant to go to nine to five jobs and be told what to do over and over.

Any meeting with eight people sitting around at a conference table, nothing is getting done in that meeting. You are literally just dying one hour at a time.

At heart I’m an entrepreneur and any day in which I solve the same problem twice in a row, I’m pretty unhappy. So by definition, I like to do something different every day. I think all humans are sort of meant to do that kind of thing.

A small band of deeply committed believers will spread a story better than a horde of the lightly committed. True for religion, reputation, brand, currency, politics.

Forty hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes — train and sprint, then rest and reassess.

In an older society with few resources and mechanical work, the scheduled life is the most productive. In a modern society with permissionless leverage and creative work, the unscheduled life is the most productive.

Work becomes flow at the limits of ability.

The best work is the work you’d do for free.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

The healing power of God is working in me right now. Eveyr day I get better and better in every way.” 

“God doesn’t tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.” 

“It’s only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.”