︎ Code for Life
Last Updated 08/05/21
These are the ever-evolving rules and frameworks with which I choose to conduct my life and work.
Use them wisely.
- Use long time horizons, play infinite games
- Be a monopoly of one
- Choose loyalty over talent
- Collect the dots then connect the dots
- Support your friends
- Don't chase vanity metrics
- Don't overthink shit
- Compound everything with interest
- Reflect often, move on quickly
- Build something beautiful
- Say it with your chest
- But shut up and listen
- Tell the truth*
- Pay things forward
- Fight for the underdog
- Never underestimate the underdog
- Never turn down free food
- Wear your sneakers
- Learn from disagreement
- Rebelling is fun, conforming is not
- Show gratitude and pay homage
- Ask why 3 times
- Show up
- Give and get back (combine with #8)
- All celings are glass and/or imaginary
- Never waste a good disaster
- Art is in what you leave out
- Under-promise and over-deliver
- Success takes time
- Be a good ancestor
- Design is to be cherished
- Death before inauthenticity
- Be proud of your narrative
- Good work ethic is the best catalyst
- Don’t be precious