Pieter Levels says

“Most things are a distraction, especially in the startup and tech world.”

—Pieter Levels

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“We humans coevolve with our tools. We change our tools, and then our tools change us.”

“Go Fucking Do It!”

—Pieter Levels

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

“The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything.”

—Warren Buffett

“I didn't have a choice because I was a WordPress script kiddie, then Nomad List started taking off so I needed to learn to code while something was taking off. If I would have said, "Okay guys I'm going to take six months off to go to this React Javascript Core Bootcamp and then I'll rewrite the whole website." Come on, it would be gone, so I didn't have any choice. The constraints are important.”

—Pieter Levels

“This took a few months but I remember the first week of Nomad List launching I got an email from Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress.com, at least, and he said, "Can we sponsor the website?" I said sure, so he was sending me a few thousand dollars a month. Immediately that started making money as well, so now I had memberships, a basic sponsorship, so now I was at maybe $3,000/month and it was great.”

—Pieter Levels

“Read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.”

—Warren Buffett