krish retweeted
I think ambitious people should treat life in “seasons” rather than trying to balance everything every day.
A few years massively overallocated to work. A period getting seriously fit. A year or two nomading. Then family takes priority for a while. Then maybe at 35 you go completely insane again and spend four years building a new company, and so on.
The mistake is thinking every metric needs to stay green all the time. Most great outcomes (building a company, writing sth serious, training for an event) need uninterrupted runs, not daily moderation. Sometimes work should suffer cause you’re travelling, sometimes your social life should suffer cause you’re building, sometimes career progression should slow cause family matters more. That’s fine.
And tbh it probably makes life more fun too. You get actual chapters and completely different versions of yourself instead of spending 40 years maintaining the same perfectly optimised routine. A few intense years in one city, a weird nomad phase, an obsession that takes over your life, then something completely different. Probably much more memorable than one very long well-optimised Tuesday.
It's why I encourage everyone to think of balance in years, not days. A good life can look horribly unbalanced on some random Tuesday and still be very balanced over 10 years.
We should all stop with this modern obsession of having a perfectly balanced, optimised life (8 hours sleep, daily cardio + gym, eat well, deep work, etc.)
Most exceptional lives are heavily overallocated somewhere and any pursuit of greatness (in business, art, sport, research) requires big sacrifices.
Online gurus love selling this perfect recipe of life but reality is you only have a 24h day. No way you can sleep 8h, do 10k steps, gym, morning sunlight, read, eat perfectly, do 9h of deep work, see friends, maintain a relationship and somehow be happy through all of it.
I think a better thing for ambitious people is to think of life in seasons: a year obsessed with work, then a period focused on health, family, travel, etc. You can be massively overallocated to one thing for a while without deciding that’s what your entire life should look like. Balance probably makes more sense measured over years than every single day.
krish retweeted
uncommon is finally 70% as good as me at designing websites. i expect it to be better than me in <9 months.
try it here: unc.mn/website
you drop your existing website. it understands your company, designs a brand and builds your website.
krish retweeted
Velocity : Speed + Direction
If the only fixed constraint is time, then only those with the highest velocity can win. Definitionally.
Speed is basically my #1 characteristic of successful people at this point
You know it when you meet it. Some people just have a higher base clock speed
krish retweeted
nothing drains me more than dealing with pessimists. people who keep on saying they "can't do the thing". people who keep on bringing up all the obstacles. like, "oh i shouldnt do that because xyz". just coming up with excuses as to why they aren't doing the thing
krish retweeted
Skill issue.
Didn’t close the deal? Didn’t make the hire? Didn’t hit the lift PR? Don’t have a billion dollars? Didn’t get the girl? Didn’t get the desired electoral result?
Skill issue, that’s your fault, if you were more capable you’d have won. Become more skilled
4/5
krish retweeted
we are excited to launch an experimental API focused on data extraction today @inducedai
- send a URL and natural language query
- get structured data back
no custom scraping scripts required. supports csv, json and markdown with more to come.
free to use. examples below 👇
krish retweeted
A full year of everyone and their brother working on agents, and one public demonstration of agents actually working.
Still think the frontier is efficient?
