Always a good time riding with Alan. And look at those bikes!

Thinking vs feeling Analyzing vs sensing Intellectual vs intuitive Knowledge vs wisdom Learned vs absorbed University vs experience Reading about it vs doing Deciding vs recognizing Head vs gut Logic vs intuition Doing vs being Force vs flow Make it happen vs let it happen Don’t get stuck on the left. Use both.

Nearly three years ago, I said on a podcast that I thought business plans were counterproductive. But I think what I was on to is actually bigger than that. We have all been taught some version of this path: Get good grades. Go to college. Get a good job. Climb the ladder. Make money. Retire. But I think you can feel that this is breaking apart in real time now. But what's the alternative? Just find the "right" path that still works, and follow that? Things are moving too fast to think like that anymore. Five years ago, software devs were some of the highest paid talent on the market. Today, entry-level jobs in software have all but vanished. Planning 5-20 years out is not going to work the same way it did for our parents. Whether you're planning for a career or a business. That sounds scary. But it's actually good news (I promise). You don't need the whole road mapped out anymore. Here's what I'm doing now: Getting clear about where I want to be. Not a dollar amount, but more of a state of mind. I don't attach a timeline to it. I consider: The feelings I'll have while I'm going about a typical day. How I'll react to events in my life. Who I'm surrounded by. The activities I'll do. Then instead of planning a whole road to that end state, I'm simply keeping that in mind now, when I'm: 1. making decisions. 2. reacting to events. 3. choosing paths that are presented to me. Without a plan, but with a clear vision for where I want to end up, I trust my intuition's response to life. It acts like a compass. I can adjust my path on the fly as I move toward my end goal. Because no plan will survive contact with reality for long nowadays. What are you doing to adapt?

Is our lived, experienced consciousness just a cross-section of our full being, a 3rd dimensional representation of something far larger and more complex? youtube.com/watch?v=iiWKq57u…

"the guy who strikes out is still closer to hitting a home run than the heckler in the bleachers"

Hustle culture is keeping you poor. Hard work is not what pays anymore. And it never was. I spent about 20 years reading self-help books and doing all kinds of programs. What I learned recently - through experience - threw most of it out the window. Hustle culture tells you to sit at your computer and produce more. More content. More sales calls. More products. Just do more. I want you to lift your head up for a minute. AI can now take your knowledge and act on it faster than you or I ever could. Most of what gives high value to the knowledge work you get paid for is being swallowed by LLMs, and there is no stopping this or regulating it away (and it's GREAT for you, I promise). The scarce skill now is making clear, effective decisions at a rapid pace. CEOs already know this. They aren't paid for hours, they're paid for great decision-making ability. Great decisions require high energy and clarity. If you're burnt out, low energy, or internally conflicted you will struggle to make decisions at all, let alone make them well and quickly. So hustle culture isn't rescuing you from the permanent underclass. It's your ticket to it, because it's robbing you of exactly what you need to win in this new era: your energy and clarity. When you grow your energy and save it for the decisions that matter, you decide better and faster. Your progress compounds. This has happened in my own life, faster than I thought possible. So I stopped measuring my productivity in hours. Instead I focus only on protecting my energy so I make better decisions. For me that means spending hours every morning waking up, hitting the gym and sitting in the sauna. It means going on random errands that I could pay some delivery driver to do for me, just because I love driving my car. My productivity and the results in my life have gone exponential since I've started making this shift. So what is it for you that increases your energy and grows your capacity and clarity? Start doing more of that. I want you to love your life so you can build cool things that humanity can enjoy with you. Go and get it!