Constraints create productivity

You will get more done writing down your goal and three things you're going to do to move toward that goal, you'll get more things done in three months than you will in three years without that.

If you start writing, and you do it regularly, two things will happen. First of all, you're going to write for yourself and you keep improving, you'll be a better writer. That's for sure. If you're lucky or if you're right about stuff, you might start to attract people who think similarly.

I set a timer of 20 minutes, and then I say, 'All right, no distractions.' I have a script where I just kill all LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, whatever sites. And then in the first few minutes I'm grumbling, but about five minutes in, there's a switch, and I'm now actually heads down and doing it.

The biggest question is, why? Why do we get up in the morning? What are we trying to actually do? Are we making a difference at all? And if you can say, 'This week I'm going to do this,' and then at the end of the week you say, 'Oh, that worked or that didn't work,' and you can try something new or keep going.

You can tell how much better AI is getting by how long a leash you can give it to do work.