James Clear

"I try to work backwards from magic. What would the magical outcome be? And then let me try to figure out a couple different paths that could potentially get me there"

"I don't want to be the first person to tell myself no. You know, I want the world to tell me no first and then I'll adjust based on the feedback that I get."

"I will go back through and take photos of each of those and highlight the photo on my iPhone and just copy and paste it into like an Evernote file or you know, Google Doc."

"Copy and paste it into like an Evernote file or you know, Google Doc or wherever I'm storing that stuff at."

"I found Reddit really helpful when I was working on certain sections of the book. So, I would search things like, what's the best habit you've ever built, Reddit"

"His approach I think is great, which is mostly just like dump it in Vanguard and let it ride. Investing in Vanguard is incredibly diversified because you got a slice of every company."

"what I did was I moved Audible to the home screen of my phone and I just said, well, I'll just listen to an audio book when I'm usually doing that"

"I went to the three star reviews on Amazon one star review everybody hates it often for some stupid reason like the book showed up and it was dirty on the dust jacket"

"Hey, use the Perplexity MCP. Tell me who is in this space. What's a unique kind of differentiating angle that we can take?"

"Clerk for OAuth and login uh easy to spin up OAuth or anything like that"

"I would probably deploy onto Vercel or Railway or, you know, something along those lines"

"anti-gravity is really cool. Like definitely recommend people check it out"

"I would probably use cursor agent with, you know, GPT or Gemini or something like that for kind of an outside perspective."

"So, meanwhile, I'm going to go over to, uh, AI Studio and I'm going to give the exact same, uh, prompt."

"I would probably deploy onto Vercel or Railway or, you know, something along those lines"

"some of the things that I've used in like my most recent builds are like uh Neon, which is kind of the the database uh plugs in nicely and plays well with Vercel"

"you could integrate Stripe for the payments and the subscriptions relatively easily as well"

"they have a little habit tracker where they just put an X down for each day they do their workout and then at the end of the month they count up how many workouts they did"

"I'm a huge advocate of J.L. Collins and The Simple Path to Wealth that book. His approach I think is great, which is mostly just like dump it in Vanguard and let it ride."

"they should update and use new tools or bring YouTube in or whatever and they don't and now all of a sudden they're starting to lose the students"

"I looked at some of the books that had come out before me power of habits seven habits of highly effective people you know books like this that had already been written on habits"

"We have a book coming out called The Overthinker's Guide to Making Decisions and that is basically a book about choices. It's a book about choosing and making decisions."

"Man's Search for Meaning basically you only hear that in the book title. Nobody uses that phrase in daily life."

"How to Win Friends and Influence People even now describing it as winning friends sounds kind of odd, but it's odd enough that there's no mistaking what you're talking about."

"Rich Dad, Poor Dad, or the life-changing magic of tidying up. I thought tidying up was a small thing. Now you're telling me it's life-changing."

"The life-changing magic of tidying up. I thought tidying up was a small thing. Now you're telling me it's life-changing."

"Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson. I thought astrophysics was something that was going to take seven years in a PhD. No, actually just read this book in an hour and a half."

"For Atomic Habits on launch day, I had an interview on CBS This Morning and it was a big moment for me because it changed the launch of the book from hey some guy is releasing a book to this is a thing."

"Notion wasn't even around when I was getting started."

"I looked at some of the books that had come out before me power of habits seven habits of highly effective people you know books like this that had already been written on habits"

"Well, uh it's a good question. I mean, at the end of the day, they're both VS Code forks"