April 11, 1976

The Apple I desktop computer is released by the Apple Computer Company.

It was designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak (@stevewoz). The idea of selling the computer came from Wozniak's friend Steve Jobs.

Wozniak demonstrated the first prototype in July 1976.

You are not your job.
You are not your parents.
You are not your credit score.
You are not your school diploma.
You are not the clothes you wear.
You are not the size of your network.
You are not your house or neighborhood.

You are the sum of your words, choices and actions.

Lost money can be found. Lost time is lost forever. Protect what matters most.

I started asking my 12 year old son ‘who did you help today?’ instead of asking ‘how was school?’.

He now starts his stories with ‘I held the door’, ‘helped a friend with math’, or ‘asked someone to sit with us at lunch’.

He now proactively shares how he was helpful at school.

The ability to stay calm and polite, even when people upset you, is a superpower.

To reduce your stress, try not to have strong opinions about everything.

Smart people are selectively ignorant about most things, and focused on some things.

Elon Musk: big companies are not good at revolutionary innovation

A mark of emotional maturity is hearing disagreement without taking offense.

Thoughtful dissent doesn't always mean you're wrong. It often means the issue is complex and your knowledge is incomplete.

Good-faith debate isn't an attack. It's an opportunity to sharpen your ideas.

The bosses we remember and admire:

1 told us our work mattered
2 opened career doors
3 defended us when we needed it
4 recognized and rewarded us
5 developed us as leaders
6 inspired us to stretch higher
7 led by example
8 provided us a safe space to grow
9 forgave us when we…

Your time is limited, so do not waste it living someone else’s life.

Do not let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. 

And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

—Steve Jobs

A simple redesign of the traditional broom 

Yuval Noah Harari on the importance of unlearning and relearning to stay relevant

Age is just a number. For us, that number is 1.

It is insane that just 18 months ago the state of the art AI model had a 4K token limit, and today state of the art can reach 1M tokens. There are essentially no examples in history of a technology improving at a rate of 250X in under 2 years.

Read to improve your writing. Write to improve your thinking.

Present to improve your storytelling. Build to improve your understanding.

Rest to improve your energy. Give to improve your network.

Show gratitude to improve your mood. Forgive to improve your happiness.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. —Mark Twain

No matter how important you are, always be kind.

I trained for four years to run for only nine seconds. There are people who, because they do not see results in two months, give up and quit.

Sometimes failure is brought on by oneself.

—Usain St. Leo Bolt

When you do your job really well, you can help a team win no matter your role

This pencil *hand drawing* of Michael Jordan took 250 hours to complete.