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