Rules beat willpower every time

Always rules are better than sometimes rules for self-control. And so if you're going to diet, 'I'm going to skip lunch every day.' Like holy, you haven't full thought on that at some point like a day with a big executive review, 'I really need to make sure I'm well-fed before I go into this review,' or something. And now you've broken the streak and now it's over.

"Flip that" means allocate a short amount of time (5 minutes) to do the task, rather than using the full two hours available.

If you have two hours to do a five-minute task, the effort to do that is impossible and instead you should flip that.

I have four musties, it is eat, sleep a long time, and exercise. Those are the things that I need in order to perform.

My north star metric is insights per minute. That's what I try to use whenever I have any live meetings with people.

Figure out, maybe the night before, the one thing that you want to get done in your day, and then at the earliest opportunity, just try to give yourself five minutes on it. Just five minutes. And the reason why I say five minutes is that there is this challenge that I experience and maybe other people experience as well, which is really just productive procrastination.