🚀 Things I Learned This Year - Carl Barenbrug
> # Things I Learned This Year > > 3. You don’t need to fill your time. Creating calendar white space provides a buffer for work and play. > 4. Find the intersection of doing what makes you happy, what is smart for you long-term, and what is useful to others. Whatever that is, do it often. > 5. Ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions. > 7. Friends are not forever, but they enrich our lives like no others can. > 8. Age should never hold back your confidence. > 10. Nobody cares how many books you’ve read. People care what books you’ve read. And timing can determine quality. The impact a book can have on you is dependent on where you are in life. > 11. Don’t dwell on augmenting your life. Self-care is more important than you probably think. > 12. Move to your own rhythm. This is where progress is realised. Keeping pace with others is a losing battle. > 13. How slowly or quickly you think is not an accurate measurement of your intelligence. Slow thinking is more deliberate and less emotional. > 14. Just because AI is available, doesn’t mean you need it in your product. > 15. Personal websites and newsletters are far more valuable than any social media presence. > 16. You can’t teach minimalism to somebody who hasn’t felt the pain of having too much stuff. > 17. Solo projects evolve faster, but collaborative projects evolve better. > 18. We don’t need a million followers. And maybe we don’t need a thousand true fans. But we probably could use ten good internet friends to make our digital life better. > 19. Email is the best form of communication. Especially if you write informally. > 20. It’s okay to obsess over numbers, but only if they give a sense of mission rather than distraction.
This is a list of 20 things that Carl learned last year. I highlighted the ones that are meaningful to me, go over to Carl’s page to read the rest. They make quite a good 2024 bucket list for me.
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