inherited inhibitions

i think we're all living inside invisible cages we built ourselves.

everyone's obsessed with "best practices" and "industry standards" but who decided these were best? some committee of people who were probably wrong about half the things they believed? we treat these guidelines like gospel when they're really just opinions that got popular.

the whole education system is backwards. we spend years learning prerequisites for prerequisites, building foundations for buildings we might never construct. meanwhile, the kid who drops out and starts coding at 14 is shipping products that matter.

"prerequisites are a myth. try giving the problem a shot first, dive headfirst."

i've been guilty of this too. spending months "preparing" to start a project instead of just starting. reading about machine learning for weeks before writing a single line of code. as if knowledge without application means anything.

speed matters more than we admit. think about it, there are only 52 weeks in a year. how many do you spend talking about doing something instead of actually doing it?

when you move fast, you hit reality constantly. you figure out what actually works instead of what sounds good in theory. the fluff disappears because there's no time for it.

we've gotten so used to comfort that we can't handle even productive discomfort. the moment something feels hard, we retreat to "learning more" instead of just pushing through the confusion. but confusion is where the real learning happens.

markets aren't nearly as smart as we pretend they are. if everyone was really processing information efficiently, you wouldn't have teenagers building billion-dollar companies that "experts" said would never work. the biggest wins happen where everyone else thinks there's nothing to see.

most people are other people, as wilde said. they're performing a character they think they should be instead of figuring out who they actually are. they optimize for external validation instead of internal satisfaction.

we've stopped asking what actually matters. what creates real value versus what just feels good in the moment? it's easier to follow someone else's script than to write your own.

where do you get your dopamine?

think about what actually gets you excited. what makes you lose track of time?

is it scrolling through social media? getting praised by your boss? buying something new? we're constantly jumping from one quick hit to the next the latest app, the newest gadget, the next notification.

or is it that moment when something you built actually works? when you solve a problem that was driving you crazy? when you create something that didn't exist before?

"the source of your highs shapes everything you do. chase the feeling of making things better, not the feeling of being told you're good."

small teams always win

give me three people who actually care over thirty people going through the motions. every time. less bureaucracy, quicker decisions, everyone actually contributes. plus you can afford to pay the good people what they're worth when you're not carrying dead weight.

what's actually possible

we underestimate what's possible. not just technologically, but personally. that voice saying "you can't do that" isn't based on your actual limits, it's based on everyone else's excuses.

most of our constraints are just rules someone made up. the only real boundaries are the ones physics gives us.

your ambition should scare people. if your goals don't make others uncomfortable, they're probably too small. the universe is vast and mostly empty and there's room for your wildest ideas.

breaking free

we all know these things somewhere deep down, but we've been trained to ignore them. time to stop ignoring them.

look, we're here with these incredible brains and all this technology. why wouldn't we use them to build the world we actually want instead of just accepting what's already here? every piece of knowledge is a tool for reshaping reality.

most of us are drifting without any real direction, filling time instead of using it. but you get to decide what's worth pursuing. you get to choose what kind of person to become.

stop trying to fix what's broken. start building something completely new.

don't optimize for avoiding failure. optimize for doing something so good in one dimension that people can't ignore it, even if you're terrible at everything else.