Thirty Five
Much like last years popular Thirty Four, here are thirty five things I’ve learned in thirty five years.
- You may think the lead guitarist is the bad-ass in the band, but you’d be wrong. It’s the bass player.
- If you were to drop off the face of the earth tomorrow, the people who call looking for you, those are your real friends.
- There are statistics everyone chases no matter what industry you are in. Stop sweating it.
- It’s actually not that bad getting 80% of your protein from beans and legumes.
- Shipping is infinitely harder than ideating.
- Hiring employee(s) is incredibly difficult. Oh hi person whose entire livelihood is in my hands. Nice to meet you.
- Shoes can really make an outfit. You can never have too many.
- Scotch is really good.
- Friday Night Lights is not about football.
- The smartest thing you can do is to surround yourself with people smarter than you.
- No one really knows the “right way” to do it. We’re all just faking it.
- Stressing about doing it the “right way” is what makes you better at “it”.
- Find someone who will tell you what sucks about your work. Make friends with them.
- Guns ‘N’ Roses will likely never reunite.
- Yes, Netflix lost a million customers. But they still have north of 20 million PAYING customers. You should buy their stock.
- Giving is perhaps one of the biggest gifts you can give to yourself.
- The Audi R8 is a machine to be reckoned with.
- Lying to your kids about Santa Claus is incredibly easy to do. Suckers.
- Every decent domain name is taken. If you spend six figures on one, be sure to do something cooler than color.com.
- Disconnecting helps you to really connect.
- Gray hair is like getting highlights. Except it doesn’t cost you $200 every 3 months.
- Textmate 2 was renamed to Sublime Text 2.
- It takes great discipline to know when enough is enough.
- We’re all chasing the same thing (love), whether you know it or not.
- There is never anything positive on the evening news. Puppy drowns, more at eleven.
- I will never be as cool as Ryan Gosling in Drive. I’m ok with that.
- You don’t see a lot of long hair on successful business people. I’m going to change that.
- Having a mentor means you’re willing and eager to learn. That makes you smart.
- Marriage is hard work. If you don’t want to work hard, don’t get married.
- The way I used to dress in 5th grade is popular again.
- If you’re going to grow a mustache, make sure it kicks ass. If you don’t know what a kick ass mustache looks like, Google “Tom Selleck”.
- The artist(s) probably spent the better part of a week or two putting the tracks in just the right order. Don’t be a dick and skip to track three.
- Firing employee(s) is the hardest thing I’ve had to do in the past 5 years.
- You don’t need millions of customers to be successful. I’ll take 1000 customers paying me $25/month any day of the week.
- If you want to make something for yourself, work harder than everybody else.