Sup friends 👋🏼,

I’ve been listening to a lot of re-run podcast episodes this week - most of the lessons that have resonated have been around not getting distracted by shiny object syndrome.

It feels like the advice I gravitate towards is what matters to me right now.

In any case, I’ve also been working on a side-project that I wanna get live, which feels like exactly the reason the type of thing the advice above is supposed to stop, but we’re here now…

More to come on the above soon!

Anyway, let’s get to it 🙂 

/1 50x Action > 1x Planning

I always make a mistake of spending so much time in the planning stage, that it feels like i’m working, but planning doesn’t equal progress.

Get out of the planning zone, and move to action ASAP.

Which brings me too…

/2 Follow through

“A prototype is worth a thousand meetings” - get things in the hands of users as quickly as possible, you’ll learn so much more and the feedback cycle will cut down DRASTICALLY.

/3 Same as Ever

Enjoyed this book summary - some of the key points:

• It's impossible to plan for what you can't imagine. Invest in preparedness, not in prediction.

• Your happiness depends on your expectations more than anything else. So in a world that tends to get better for most people most of the time, an important life skill is getting the goalpost to stop moving.

• Progress requires optimism and pessimism to coexist: A rational optimist.

  - Save like a pessimist and invest like an optimist.

  - Plan like a pessimist and dream like an optimist.

/4 Making Better Decisions

From a lot of friends who’ve stopped drinking, this seems to be a common theme.

/5 Have a unique point of view

I love asymmetric bets, and having a contrarian point of view is one of those huge upside areas.

If you standout from the crowd, you may look foolish. But you might also win big.

That’s a wrap - let me know your favourite link 🙂 

Till next week,

Fahim ✌️