This page contains quotes, inspiration, and guidelines from various sources that I've found to be helpful or want to be reminded of.

Principles

• Act with honesty and kindness

  • Clarity is kindness

• Understand what's within your control and own your actions

• Compete against yourself

• Iteration velocity means shipping, learning, and improving as fast as possible

• Prioritization matters because time is precious. What's the difference between working on low priority things and doing nothing at all.

  • Most people waste their time on things that don't matter.

• As a leader your job is to define reality and then give hope

Quotes

• You will mess up when moving fast, but the damage of moving too slow is far greater. - Kevin Van Gundy

• Beware of psychological denial. When reality is too painful to accept, we often distort it

  • "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard Feynman

• Instead of focusing on the ultimate outcome, focus on the next move. There is always something you can do today to get a little better, to move a little closer, to put yourself in a better position. It's not pretty. It's not sexy. It's not fast. It doesn't even make for a good story. But it works. You don't build an empire in a day. You build it brick by brick. Day by day.

• The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge. - Aristotle

• Let the dogs bark, Sancho. It's a sign we are moving forward. - Don Quixote

• Do it scared if that's what it takes.

• It is much more important to work on the right thing than it is to work many hours. - Sam Altman

  • Once you have figured out what to do, be unstoppable about getting your small handful of priorities accomplished quickly.