Notes to myself | Seth’s Weblog

1. The system will be modified and regular will not be everlasting
2. Discover the smallest viable viewers
3. Decide your clients, choose your future
4. Outdated maps could be price lower than no map in any respect
5. Reliability is a superpower
6. There aren’t any negative effects, merely results  
7. There’s normally a possibility to be of service
8. Silence is an possibility, and so is management
9. There isn’t any excellent second to start
10. Disgrace is a dream killer
11. Everybody who disagrees with you believes they’re appropriate
12. Ship the work
13. Deal with totally different folks in another way
14. I’m not caught in visitors, I’m visitors
15. Spend money on sluggish development
16. The issue with the race to the underside is you may win
17. Uncomfortable details are sometimes probably the most useful ones
18. A great deal is healthier than an enormous deal
19. When unsure search for the concern
20. Keep away from arguments, embrace conversations
21. Straightforward to measure doesn’t make it essential
22. Discover readability about who the shopper is (and isn’t)
23. Style is a platform, not a fence
24. Reducing expectations can improve satisfaction
25. Enhance undertaking hygiene
26. Ask what the system is for
27. We’d not want extra time, we merely have to resolve
28. Think about the price of holding a promise earlier than making it
29. Earn enrollment
30. Serving to somebody get what they need is less complicated than altering what they need
31. Not all criticism is equally legitimate
32. Write down the stuff you’re certain you’ll always remember
33. Deal with the exhausting half
34. Quitting one factor is the one solution to discover the main target to do the subsequent factor
35. Perfectionism will not be associated to high quality
36. Your rivals are literally your allies
37. Browsing is healthier than golf
38. Criticize concepts, not folks
39. Cannibals hardly ever get night time’s sleep
40. Standing roles are the unseen pressure in nearly each system
41. Embrace vital discomfort
42. Gratitude is a extra helpful gas than anger
43. Create pressure and relieve stress
44. Imposter syndrome is actual, and it arrives every time we’re doing essential work
45. Resolve fascinating issues
46. Supply dignity
47. Ignore sunk prices
48. Don’t attempt to fill an unfillable gap
49. This won’t work
50. Consistency is extra helpful than authenticity
51. Individuals like us do issues like this
52. Easy hacks hardly ever repair long-term issues
53. Commerce short-term wins for long-term influence
54. In the present day’s world is unpredictable, and that is as steady as it would ever be once more
55. Beneficiant doesn’t imply free
56. Make assertions
57. Spend money on expertise that compound with effort
58. Tradition conceals programs, and programs assemble our future
59. Peeves make awful pets
60. Reassurance is futile
61. Take duty, demand freedom, don’t search authority
62. Concepts that unfold, win
63. Earn belief via motion
64. Change into the individual your future thanks you for and forgive the previous for the errors it made
65. Attitudes are expertise

July 10, 2025