When you say yes to something, you say no to something else.

When you say yes to everything, you say no to family and friends.

You'll never find time if you don't say no to less important things.

Something high-performers have in common is adaptability.

They may criticize decisions but will adapt nonetheless because they understand the costs of misalignment.

But when they denounce, you should listen closely.

We all have different brain types, yet we continue to train our workers in cohorts.

I note everything. But I recently felt challenged to remember some minor things.

I don’t know if doing this affects my memory, or maybe I just worry for nothing, and there is no correlation.

I also suspect I have so much in mind that I forgot more minor stuff.

Never being satisfied with yourself is as a blessing as it is a curse.

It questions confidence as you are never convinced you do great.

It constantly challenges you, making you do great.

A perfect paradox.

When changing a model, don't try to patch a dysfunctional system.

Be innovative, adapt, and make sure your teams find belonging within the new normal.

Adding layers to something broken makes it worse.

Politics destroys culture.

It starts when you take sides with and reward toxic but smart people because you fear losing them.

Toxicity comes with massive turnover costs.

Decrease their influence by documenting every bit of knowledge.

Make them redundant.

The anticipation of an economic downturn resulting from post-pandemic and geopolitical conflict means that leaders will be in restructuring situations over the next 12 to 18 months.

Conservative and rigid company cultures will have a hard time adapting.

Interesting that everyone tells you to start talking to potential customers before building a product, but rare are people actually telling you how to find these people to speak to in the first place.

Reading is productive time.

It is not instantly rewarding. It compounds over time to greater value.

Learning grows smarter. Being smarter decreases the odds of failure.

Block time and space for it, as reading speaks volumes.

Successful leaders smartly manage risk by sharing it as widely as they can.

Break big projects into atomic and low-risk parts.

Numerous opportunities to fail cheaply and become stronger.

Let's say you schedule a 1-hour meeting with your team of 8. It doesn't hurt, right?

A refresh of the meeting cost formula:

One of the vital skills successful leaders have is consciously bringing their attention to the present moment.

It increases awareness of what is happening in and around without immediate judgement.

Benefits:

I have never been as happy as when I started publicly sharing all my knowledge and seeing how it connects with people.

Linking all the dots to map my expertise into a single book is empowering.

The whole point is to run into walls as quickly as possible just so you can map out where the walls are and stop hitting our heads against them.

What fundamentally drives me is to provide the best life experience my family can ever have.

Contrary to popular belief, knowledge range makes you stronger in your discipline.

Leave your niche. Visualize the broader picture. Seek transferable knowledge in other domains. Get back stronger.

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If you try to accomplish something during summer in touristic locations, you have to give it twice as hard because nobody wants to work around you.

You will also be twice as motivated because you feel you outperform everyone.

Every day, I browse these platforms for content:

• @readwise
• Product Hunt
• Hacker News
• Harvard Business Review
• YouTube subscriptions

I save content I want to consume later and complement it with books I found interesting along the way.

Way enough to stay inspired.