Author: vlad

It’s cool to have a sleep tracker, but if I’m investing in my sleep, I want a whole kit, that provides guided meditations, supplements, sleep trackers with active feedback. It progressively tries new methods until we find something that is effective. Could be a base fee for equipment, plus a subscription fee for the monitoring/new supplements. I don’t care, just save my sleep!

It really doesn’t build a connection. I want a list that I internalize of ways to redirect a conversation with anyone into a meaningful talk, even if it’s 30 seconds or less in an elevator.

If they were called levitators.

I love the fingerprint access on my phone. There needs to be a reliable method similar to that for all of my accounts. Using secure passwords is really annoying.

Like your pc Antivirus.

WordPress, you have failed me. Host Gator, you have failed me. SiteLock, why are you even in my life, no one invited you! You’re a ripoff and a mediocre service.

Without my permission or even notifying me.

This is a repeat, but it’s so discouraging when you work on a project with people who don’t share your enthusiasm. It’s almost impossible to do something completely alone, but sometimes it seems even harder to find a partner that can match your desire to create something amazing.

I’m starting to learn that I would rather have a partner with few skills and immense enthusiasm, than a partner with great skills, but no emotional investment. Too many times I’ve had to dance around a business partner like a circus monkey, hoping to keep their interest as if I need to win them over. They’re not the ones that require my energy, the idea is.

It’s hard to sleep well, and it seems like nothing I try improves that quality.

It’s tempting to jump straight into a new idea or business project. But it’s also the honeymoon period. It takes self control to not dive right in, only to realize that you’re in a pool with no water.

At what point does your stuff begin to own you?

Fight Club – “You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you’ve got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you’re trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”

Too much stuff. What do I actually need, and how do I find a standard measure for the things I need?

I had like three drinks last night, this makes no sense. Maybe the real problem is that I’m getting old…

Nostalgia makes you feel good, but it’s your past clinging to you under false pretenses, trying to prevent you from enjoying the present, and telling you that the future won’t be as good.

Every week I want one cool challenge as a homework assignment. And I’m not talking school hw. Think Fight Club meets Tim Ferriss.

If I’m ever hiring, I’m not gonna judge the person based on their interview performance – everyone fakes that. I’ll judge them based on how they treated the receptionist while waiting for the interview. Or have my interviewer sit in reception and chat with the person before telling them that this is who they are meeting.

That will give you a much more honest evaluation.

I’m writing this as my site is down. Malware somehow got injected into one of my sites, bringing my whole network of blogs and websites down.

Spent the whole morning working with my host to resolve the issues, so if you’re reading this note, we’re live again. Phew.

I want my phone to be able to count how many words of content I write per day. But, it needs to not include useless things like email and text. Instead, I want it to only count words in Evernote, WordPress, etc.

I mean, who cares? If I believe in something, does it matter who agrees with it beyond that?

The question is, when do you know that you are being an innovator, seeing the future,  versus being a crazy person seeing delusion?

Mortality continued.

I still waste too much time on meaningless things. We are mortal and quickly approaching our expiration dates. We need to make the most out of that time?