Social media and self-help books make the hustle culture look easy. They use the dopamine of positivity to make you think you can carry on non-stop without thinking. But our vision often doesn’t align with the result. The self-helps keep rubbing your face about how working hard can help you get the rich level of Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, but they don't tell that they only got super-rich in their 40s-50s. They did work hard and smart, but they had many failures and obstacles to overcome.

Hustle culture can lead to burnout

Self-helps are often repetitive copy-paste works from other books, but self-help can't copy-paste philosophy. Philosophy questions the subject to get a clearer answer instead of just touching the surface. They question the what, when, where, who, why, and how. Philosophy can save you from accepting blindly what people might call "great" or "you need to buy this". It can save you from blind preaching too.

Philosophy encourages critical thinking

“He (CS Lewis) taught me to look deeper into the millstone than simply the surface. Everything that comes across in life should be examined, not simply accepted. And that includes religion and personal problems.”

Once you have exposed yourself to some philosophy, it's easier to spot the many self-help ads or self-validating posts on social media. Most people on social media use it for the notifications or to be influencers by showing flashy or luxurious objects. But the truth is that if you want to spot the real businessman, you have to look for older people or people who are humble. From their stories, it is clear that they have been through a lot of stuff and had to swallow their pride.

Philosophy helps you to pull the reins of blind grinding and preaching

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The following is a list of techniques, principles, philosophies that I collected over the years during my journey of self improvement. I bet you know most of them, but if you don't, I encourage you to do your own research on the source and add a tiny bit of help to your daily hustling.This is NOT a complete list, and I plan on updating it every now and then.

Daily reminders to grow

If you get one percent better each day for one year, you'll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done.<a href="https://jamesclear.com/continuous-improvement">🔗 Source</a>

1% better everyday

"20% of what you do accounts for 80% of your results."Work smarter, not harder.<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2016/03/07/80-20-rule/?sh=1366c9b33814">🔗 Source</a>

20/80 principle

This is all stuff that I have in a 'vision and principles' board at home.

Career and growth 

Blueprints for a growth mindset

In Can't Hurt Me, he shares his astonishing life story and reveals that most of us tap into only 40% of our capabilities. Goggins calls this The 40% Rule, and his story illuminates a path that anyone can follow to push past pain, demolish fear, and reach their full potential.

Live Your Life With Full Capabilities.

"When you think that you are done, you're only 40% in to what your body's capable of doing. That's just the limits that we put on ourselves. The human body can withstand and accomplish a hell of a lot more than most of us think possible, and that it all begins and ends in the mind."

Accomplish A Hell Lot ! 

"No matter who you are, life will present you similar opportunities where you can prove to be uncommon. There are people in all walks of life who relish those moments, and when I see them, I recognize them immediately because they are usually that person who's all by himself. It's the suit who's still at the office at midnight while everyone else is at the bar, or the badass who hits the gym directly after coming off a forty-eight-hour op. She's the wildland firefighter who instead of hitting her bedroll, sharpens her chainsaw after working a fire for twenty-four hours.

Recognise Uncommon Hustler Inside You.

Think of your small accomplishments as kindling. When you want a bonfire, you don't start by lighting a big log. You collect some witch's hair—a small pile of hay or some dry, dead grass. You light that, and then add small sticks and bigger sticks before you feed your tree stump into the blaze. Because it's the small sparks, which start small fires, that eventually build enough heat to burn the whole fucking forest down."

"We all need small sparks

“Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind, one that leads to both peak performance, and beautiful silence.”

A Beautiful Pain !

“You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft, that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.”

Find The True Potential 

"From the time you take birth, you become eligible to die... You also become eligible to become a warrior. I hope you are ready! It's time to go to war!!"

" The Can't Hurt Me " Mentality.

The words of David Goggins resonate with me on a level that I cannot quite describe.

I understand what it is to watch people suffer and fail because they did not believe in themselves. I understand what it is to watch people waste their lives and fuck up time and time again. I will not walk that path.

New York Times Bestseller Over 2.5 million copies sold For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare - poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events, inspiring Outside magazine to name him The Fittest (Real) Man in America. In this curse-word-free edition of Can't Hurt Me, he shares his astonishing life story and reveals that most of us tap into only 40% of our capabilities. Goggins calls this The 40% Rule, and his story illuminates a path that anyone can follow to push past pain, demolish fear, and reach their full potential.

Self Improvement

Can't Hurt Me

All the Public Startup Pitch Decks in One Place

📈 Coinbase ( 2012, Seed  ); C ommentary  on the round by Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase. 📈 Uber ( 2008, Seed  ) 

Actual Fundraising Pitch Decks

<ul><li>📈 adpushup (2017, Seed ) </li><li>📈 AirBnB (2009, Seed ) </li><li>📈 AppNexus (2007, Seed ) </li><li>📈 Bliss (2017, Seed ) </li><li>📈 Boomtrain (2014, ? ) </li><li>📈 Buffer (2011, Seed ) </li><li>📈 BuzzFeed (2008, Series A ) </li><li>📈 Castle (2017, Seed ) </li><li> </li><li>📈 Contently (2014, Series B ) </li><li>📈 Cubeit (2017, Seed ) </li><li>📈 Crew (2015, Series A ) </li><li>📈 DocSend (2013, Seed ) </li><li>📈 Dwolla (2013, Series C ) </li><li>📈 eShares; Commentary on the round by Henry Ward , CEO of eShares </li><li>📈 Foursquare (2009, Seed ) </li><li>📈 Front; Commentary on the round by Mathilde Collin , CEO of Front </li><li>📈 Gaia Design (2015, ? ) </li><li>📈 Intercom (2011, Seed ) </li><li>📈 Launchrock (2011, Seed ) </li></ul>

If a month feels like a lot of time to assemble a list of pitch decks, here’s a preview of The Open Guide to Startup Fundraising.

The Open Guide to Startup Fundraising

A few weeks ago, Joshua Levy and I announced we were starting work on The Open Guide to Startup Fundraising. To say the guide is growing to considerable size would be an understatement. As we…

The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. Financial markets get a lot of attention. They tend to fluctuate unpredictably and sometimes wildly. The product cycle by comparison gets relatively little attention, even though it is what actually drives the computing industry forward.

What’s Next in Computing?

In the mainframe era, only large organizations could afford a computer. Now processors and sensors are getting so small and cheap that there will be many more computers than there are people.

Hardware: small, cheap, and ubiquitous

A lot of the excitement in AI has focused on deep learning, a machine learning technique that was popularized by a now famous 2012 Google project that used a giant cluster of computers to learn to identify cats in YouTube videos. Deep learning is a descendent of neural networks, a technology that dates back to the 1940s. It was brought back to life by a combination of factors, including new algorithms, cheap parallel computation, and the widespread availability of large data sets.

Software: the golden age of AI

There are a variety of new computing platforms currently in the gestation phase that will soon get much better — and possibly enter the growth phase — as they incorporate recent advances in hardware and software. Although they are designed and packaged very differently, they share a common theme: they give us new and augmented abilities by embedding a smart virtualization layer on top of the world. Here is a brief overview of some of the new platforms: cars, drones, the internet of things, wearables, VR and AR.

Software + hardware: the new computers

The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing lately about where we are in the financial cycle. Financial…

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