"all the way back in 2019 I received a message that changed the direction of this podcast forever it was from Tristan who is one of the co-founders of rewise he said hey I love the podcast and he told ..."

"started thinking like well why why does everybody want this like why do they keep asking for this and I thought about it's like well if you think about this is like has anybody else in the world read ..."

"the link Down Below in the show notes and because this is brand new it's actually half the price of what it's eventually going to be there's not even a landing page you just go to Founders notes.com s..."

"you see this pattern with startup Founders you don't want to start a startup to do something that everyone agrees is a good idea or there will already be other companies doing it you have to do someth..."

"think of themselves as conventional minded it genuinely feels to them as if they make up their own minds about everything it's just a coincidence that their beliefs are identical to their peers and th..."

"with their own employees the importance of Founders knowing other Founders is repeated a lot in Paul's essays I'm going to read that one more time because I think it's important one of the strangest i..."

"watching how other people get their ideas when you stand back at a sufficient distance you can see these ideas spreading through groups of people like waves the most obvious are in fashion you notice ..."

"curiosity if the answer is not much maybe you should change something curiosity is unlike most other appetites indulging it tends to increase rather than to satiate it questions lead to more questions..."

"collection of essays that I read and highlighted and made notes on that I won't get to today I'll probably do it in maybe like a few weeks maybe a few months I'll just do like bonus episodes on Paul g..."

"the answer to that question there isn't in fact Paul has this great quote where he's respond on on Twitter he's responding back to Patrick Carson the founder of stripe saying hey you know stripe was r..."

"to win PG wooden housee or wood house would probably get my vote for the best English writer of the 20th century no one has ever made it look easier but no one ever worked harder at 74 he wrote with e..."

"work so remember let go back to the title of the essay how to work hard they had as much natural abilities anyone could have and yet they also worked about as hard as anyone could work you need both i..."

"have to moderate it because you can be extremely I guess there's no other word you can just be extremely mean to yourself uh like most little kids I enjoyed the feeling of achievement when I learned o..."

"speaking now I think around age 13 or 14 I have a clear memory from around then of sitting in the sitting room staring outside and wondering why I was wasting my summer holiday back to Paul strangely ..."

"shape of real work you have to learn how many hours a day to spend on it you can't solve this problem by simply working every waking hour because in many kinds of work there's a point Beyond which the..."

"Jimmy iven there's a there's a great documentary on HBO called the defiant ones and Jimmy IV's had a very interesting career record producer founder winds up selling the company he co-owned with uh Dr..."

"a lot of the um essays I covered last week were a lot older um I I do have some that are maybe over 10 years old in in the selection today but uh the one I started with came from 20 is written in 2020..."

"the center as you can without stalling that is an absolutely excellent couple PS later I just keep repeating in the margins excellent the consensus about which problems are most important is often mis..."

"have or because in of some way of some new way you found to approach it or simply because you're more excited about it by all means work on that some of the best work is done by people who find an eas..."

"and how well you're doing you have to think about whether you should keep working in this field or switch to another if you're working hard but not getting good enough results you should switch it sou..."

"guide not only for myself but also who to spend time with is the most interesting people are the most interested so this idea is like what's who who knows better than you what's better predicted of it..."

"sounds like what headline or title sounds most interesting to you and then I do think the the benefit is like rereading them you know intermittently they definitely change I've read that I've read som..."