Quick hack to write something high-quality: Swiftly write something low-quality, then improve it. - Dickie Bush

Writing is the quickest way to understand how little you know.

And at the same time, writing is the only way to reflect on how much you do.

My mental model for living well:

If I repeated my actions from this week every week for 52 weeks, where would I be in a year?

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.