Hey Reader, Today, I want to talk about how to gain control of your emotions. As ADHDers, we feel a rollercoaster of emotions, typically deriving from childhood traumas. As Dr.Hallowell and Dr.Ratey state in Driven to Distraction, Their [ADHDers] moods can be quite unstable, going from high to low in the bat of an eye for no apparent reason. In my 20s, my emotions were unstable. For example, from 2018 - 2020, I ruined all my birthdays. Was I drinking? Of course! I already have a big mouth,...
3 days ago • 3 min read
Hey Reader, Today, I want to talk about how to build a good solution. A good solution solves users’ problems so well that they pay for it. I wasted a year figuring that out. Ultimately, I built a bad solution that was too advanced and didn’t generate revenue. I spent a year working in a silo instead of launching and giving it to users right away. Great solutions don’t come from pontification; they come from repetition and iteration. So launch fast and ask for feedback faster. As Paul Graham...
10 days ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, Today, I want to talk about the most important milestone in starting a business. If you don’t do this, you’ll waste a year while building your business. That's what happened with my first business, Breadcrumbs, doing things like Forming my C-Corp Open a business bank account Setting up my website Building a product Surprisingly, none of these are the most important things. Don’t get me wrong, they’re important, but still not the most important. The most important thing is...
24 days ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader,ADHD meds are a powerful tool, but they are like training wheels. Meds revealed my capabilities, but if I wanted to go faster & farther, I had to move on from them. They transformed me from the kid in & out of detention to getting As as a chemical engineer on scholarship at USC. Lmao, the 3 on the right are within the same 2 days. Unfortunately, I became dependent upon them and couldn't complete any work without them. If anything, when I stopped taking meds, my symptoms were...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, Here are the 4 questions I ask myself when I'm not seeing my revenue grow: Are you spending enough time on your project or giving up to early? Give a business idea at least 6 months to a year before calling it quits. Typically, the growth I experience happens in leaps rather than a steady incline. So, you have to be consistent and patient. Are you selling something that people want? The biggest risk or riskiest assumption* in your business isn’t whether your product works — it’s...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, Happy Thursday! If you're still struggling to launch your business and dream of freedom, try these steps out: If you have a job, stop wasting all your free time on social media and TV The only way to escape the rat race is to use your time to build a business and replace your income. If you’re squandering your limited time on social media and TV, you’ll never get ahead. If you plan to retire early, you’ll have plenty of time to binge TV. I’m saving Breaking Bad just for this...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, Feeling stuck and unfulfilled in your career? Here are 3 tips on how to find your next steps If you’re getting the Sunday scaries, explore your interests and start a side project I enjoyed my chemical engineering coursework, but the job wasn’t for me. I realized I had no idea what I enjoyed, and all my career aspirations were my parents & aunts/uncles. Trying new things is the best form of research. Don’t get stuck consuming content for months. Go out and try it! That’s how...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, Being an entrepreneur is largely a game of survival. If you can stay on the treadmill long enough, you win. So, the best way to survive is to care for your health by designing your day around your health. Here’s how: I schedule my health tasks and stick to them. I treat my health tasks as important as meeting a new customer. Just like a meeting, I Don’t adjust it often, Make sure I’m on time, Ensure nothing else is on my schedule The time left over is available for work,...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, This is in no way meant to discourage you from taking ADHD Meds, but if you're thinking about stopping meds, here are the key lessons I learned to manage my ADHD. Here's my last prescription from 2020 Your bad habits are stopping you from reaching your potential My bad habits required me to constantly firefight. Once I replaced those habits with good ones, I propelled myself forward. ADHD is not a permanent state but a series of manageable problems that can be systematically...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
