Think Week #42
The more you do, the less you achieve
Not gonna lie, I’m a YouTube junkie.
I could sit in front of it for hours.
Jumping from Y Combinator to Every,
How I AI to David Perell.
It’s a guilty pleasure, sans guilt.
There’s only one problem.
The TODO list of ideas I want to explore grows exponentially.
My focus dwindles.
It’s critical to pause and ask yourself:
What’s the ONE thing to focus on?
The ONE idea you should unpack?
This is incredibly difficult for me to do.
I wouldn’t call myself a polymath, but I’m fortunate to have a lot of skills and life experiences to pull from.
This is both a blessing and a trap.
I change my mind often and lose sight of what matters most. For me, in this season of life, the most important thing is to grow the Indie Thinkers community.
This past week, we got the first couple of comments on the forum.
It was rewarding to see this comment from
hit my inbox.
And then this one from
.
The piece that resonated with the us, the joy of missing out on platforms, is a healthy reminder that we don’t need to be everywhere, all at once.
Happy Father’s Day! So thankful for my Dad, and I cherish these memories.
— Daniel
"I believe a website should repel the wrong people by being extremely clear who are the right people, what is the right frequency? And rather than it being about a numbers game as in more is better, it's a deliberate focused use of your energy to build deeper connections." — Kevin Zhu
"What’s the ONE thing to focus on?
The ONE idea you should unpack?"
I love these two focusing questions.
I tend to think that I'm superman...I can take 100 projects at the same time.
AI has made this worse for me. The ability to create at the speed of thought is awesome, but now my idea funnel is overflowing. I can't manage it all.
I'm going to play with those two questions this week.