Thirty Four

Thirty four things I’ve learned in thirty four years.

• It’s all who you know
• If you knew then what you know now, then would have been easier
• Raptors do not discriminate, they will eat your children
• Where a 30” monitor once seemed ludicrous, you can now justify it by claiming bad eyesight
• The work that I do doesn’t matter—what does matter is the relationships that I make
• Hype on Twitter has a considerably small conversion rate
• Ideas are cheap
• Paypal will never be overtaken. Learn to deal with it. Accept them as your new overlord.
• Facebook will ruin more relationships than it creates
• Quality customer service wins every time
• Money isn’t everything but you sure can make more of it doing it for yourself rather than The Man
• Politicians are like Paypal. (Refer to note above)
• The Postal Service will never release a second album. They’re smart for doing that.
• Get into a career in a field that you love. If you don’t love your job, your entire life will reflect it.
• Most start-ups are based on a stupid idea, yet still raise millions. Consider it hopeful.
• What’s easy for you, may be rocket science to someone else
• Vinegar is an abomination that I’m 98% sure the Pope would ban if he had the balls to
• On your deathbed, I guarantee you won’t be wishing you had spent more time at the office
• Reach out to your heros. You’ll find that most of them are really cool people. If they’re not, you probably want to remove them from your hero list.
• I will always and forever hate the Los Angeles Lakers.
• Most expensive luxury cars that you see driving around are leased
• Perception is everything and nothing
• Stress will give you cancer if you let it
• I have been doing what I do for 8 years and am just hitting my stride
• Do not under any circumstances buy the first rev of anything
• Reply to every email, comment, tweet
• If it ain’t broke, dont’ fix it (or don’t upgrade your Adobe software if you don’t need to)
• The bigger the truck, the smaller the penis
• Find a small group of friends to invest in. If you spread yourself too thin, you’ll never get quality friendships.
• Ladies love funny
• Your college GPA doesn’t matter
• SSD drives are fan-futon-tastic
• Buying AAPL in the late 90’s was a smart move
• There will always be someone who is better than you at something, be quick to learn from them