Your Future Self Is a Real Person. Stop Handing Him the Bill.
Every shortcut I ever took, someone paid for. It was always me, later, and I treated that man like a stranger whose problems weren’t mine. He was me. He had opinions about it.
Every shortcut I ever took, someone paid for. It was always me, later, and I treated that man like a stranger whose problems weren’t mine. He was me. He had opinions about it.
Every small choice today is a message to the person you will be in five years. Most people send the wrong message and are surprised when it is received.
Almost everyone is optimising for this quarter. That leaves the multi-year opportunities strangely uncrowded, for anyone willing to wait.
Discipline is usually framed as force: making yourself do what you do not want. It is more accurately a memory problem, and it gets easier when you solve the right one.
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