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Comment on My General Operating Principles: 37 Principles for Making Hard Decisions by Brian Carpenter

Good stuff Taylor. Here’s one of mine along the lines of your 29, 30 & 32: Put myself in a path where black swans of fortune are known to randomly land (“Extremistan.”) (Nicholas Nassim Taleb) Example: Creating digital products that CAN go viral. Some say “viral” can be engineered and pursued as a strategy. But I think that “viral” is more often than not a black swan. But if it lands, you can score BIG. But the swan can’t land if you don’t create the product. (Admittedly, this metaphor will b...

Comment on My Favorite Heuristic for Evaluating Relationships: The Antifragile Person by Katya Kean

“In Antifragile, Taleb praises entrepreneurship not because of it’s ability to make a few people wealthy… ”
“It’s” in the above sentence shouldn’t have an apostrophe. If you want people to take you seriously, you NEED to find a proofreader (or two). You need to respect your own writing enough to do that, or no one else will respect your writing. Proper Grammer is like wearing a nice suit to a formal event. It shows respect for yourself and others. Poor Grammer is like wearing a wrinkley suit...

Comment on Nine 80/20 Principles for Entrepreneurs Learned From Writing a Book by Derek W

I loved the anecdotes about famous artists that gave insight into the little quirky things they did that paid off big time over their creative careers. Also liked your thoughts about marginal returns on projects after they are good enough, and the 15 hour rule. Often I feel like I should be working more like the “normal” 40 hours, but it usually just leads to doing grunt work that has less meaning or profit in it.

Comment on My Favorite Heuristic for Evaluating Relationships: The Antifragile Person by Jordan Schumacher

Hey Taylor,

Great article on on being honest and calling people out on their BS. You know I never really thought about it before, but the people I’ve become closest friends with, and the people I respect the most, have ALWAYS been the people who have been willing to call me out on my bullshit. And they immediately gained my respect, because they were equally willing to be called out on their own bullshit.

I think in today’s world of carefully crafted online personas and brands, being authenti...

Comment on #1 Amazon Business Best Seller and an invitation to jump by Dan Andrews

awesome!

Comment on #1 Amazon Business Best Seller and an invitation to jump by Mike Campbell

Awesome article Taylor and congrats on the book success. Read the 1st part of your book last night and going to be diving into to the rest tonight. The 4 Hour Work Week is a great book as well and something that I have learned to embrace with my skills and talents. Wishing you much more continued success.

Comment on 4 Strategies To Find The Work Only You Can Do (And Why It’s More Profitable Than Ever) by Kashif

Hey Mohit, fancy finding you here. Agree that micro markets and micro niche sites are gold

Comment on A Single Word Summary of 188 Books on Entrepreneurship by Michael Hopkins

Thanks for the article. I have to point out that Buffet never said that, though he’s obviously benefitted from doing one big thing.

Comment on The Entrepreneur’s Daily Ritual by Taylor Pearson

In the past, I haven’t, but that’s one thing I’ve been working on this year.

As of right now, I tend to taper my weeks.

So Monday and Tuesday are usually long days (10ish). Wednesdays and Thursdays are Normal (8ish hours). Friday and Saturday are short (6ish hours). Sundays are Free with a little planning for the week at night.

That seems to work well with my rhythms and let’s me do more grinding early in the week and reflection later in the week.

Comment on The Entrepreneur’s Daily Ritual by Martin Frank

Really Great Taylor! Thanks for sharing you raituals.

I know most people living an location independent live not necessarily differenciate betweek ‘workdays’ and ‘weekends’. But I found it helpful to have some kind of a weekly structure.

Do you have a different rountine on non-work days (if you have any?)