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I owe you an apology. If I’ve spoken on the phone with you at any point in the past four or five years then there’s a decent chance (75%) that I was playing chess online at the same time. I’m sort of embarrassed if you are reading this. But I wanted to come clean.
In the meetings ask the question, “what one product can I build for you that you will definitely buy?”
The guys from Goldman Sachs told me I might even be worth a billion when they came in and made their pitch in early 2000.
When I eat good food I get healthier. If I feed good things for my mind, I get healthier.
I am most happy when I know stuff from experience. From deep inside. Not the stuff I read in books.
I felt empty because everything I had ever worked for and ever wished for had gotten me to this point: lying on a mattress with no job, no money, no friends or family.
I hated my job. I would sit in my office and lock the door and work on novels that never got published.
Imagine if you could write for the top sitcom in America, then write movies in Hollywood, and actually make a ton of money doing it.
