g'day
i dropped a youtube video last night:
someone asked me the other day:
‘what is the most important trait of a successful founder?’
i said at the time 'resilience'… but i want to change my answer.
it's impatience.
(and it's part of the reason i keep these emails short).
people going places can zoom out to the galactic level and realise that we are motes of dust orbiting balls of gas.
realise that we're blips in the pages of history.
that time is scarce, life is short.
and that you must move quickly.
tim urban still has the best visual for this: the human life, visualised in weeks.
it's uncomfortable to look at it.
and i reckon the best founders have always known it intuitively.
the downstream effects of this knowledge are a real hack for starting companies:
there's not much time for coffee, given the scale of the universe.
no time for analysis paralysis, when nothing really matters.
shoots are shot. progress is accelerated.
mistakes (and learning) are a painful certainty.
and best of all: you just fit more into life.
is it healthy? probably not.
is it fun to live with a person like this? not all the time.
but if you're reading this and something in you is nodding, you already know:
that life is short. so start acting like it.
charlie
ps: anyone know any cafe owners in sydney that would be keen on being part of a video?
