Dickie Bush Quotes

Imagine what the world would look like if everyone spent their time the way they know they should.

How to keep momentum: minimize startup costs.

When working on multiple projects, the goal should be to minimize startup friction.

How I handle it: every time I finish working on something, I scribble down what I just completed, my current thoughts, and the exact next steps.

Work-life balance implies spreading yourself thin.

Instead, think of the work-life flywheel.

Momentum in one area leading to momentum in another and on and on.

Something I try to keep in mind while writing:

What’s obvious to you can be magic to others.

Reasons to tweet:

1. Refine ideas -> every essay I write starts as a tweet. 280-characters is the ultimate creative restraint.

2. Create a learning flywheel -> learn, share, discuss, repeat.

3. Attract like-minded people -> show people I see the world the same way they do.

An idea: the most interesting people are extremely transparent or extremely opaque.

I've found that anxiety is a signal for action.

Rather than letting it hunt you down, probe deeper into these feelings. Find what is uncertain or what you’re failing to communicate.

Take control over the parts you can, and DO SOMETHING.

How to get lucky:

Consider a wide-open field with someone hurling darts at a dartboard.

Every one that lands is an opportunity seized.

But most fields have a terrible thrower aiming at a small dartboard.

The lucky people recruit 100 throwers and build a bigger dartboard.

Measure twice, cut once leads to too much measuring and not enough cutting.

Start cutting and measure as you go.

Time, Energy, and Attention are the scarcest commodities.

Seek polarity.

The best results come from working at the extremes - fully on or fully off.

The worst results come from spending time in the greyscale - halfway on or halfway off.