Donn Felker

If you want to be productive, use software that makes you productive. If it doesn't, get rid of it. Just because others find it useful doesn't mean you will. Practicing what I preach: I have moved back to Notion from Obsidian this weekend.

I didn’t always wake early. When I worked in the music industry I was a night owl. Up till 4-5am. What got me in the habit was having a kid. She’d get up at 5:30am daily. Years later I bumped it back to 4:30am. That was hard. Here’s what my alarms looked like for about a month.

If you want to develop an early morning creative routine, you’ve got to do it on the weekends too. Waking up late on the weekends resets all the work you did during the week to get in the habit of waking early. Habits are formed everyday.

If you wan't to get stuck in life, stop making decisions. The old saying is that people get "stuck in their ways" as they age. You get to choose what ways you get stuck, or choose to how to get unstuck. Indecision is also a choice you make. The choice is yours.

You need long periods of alone time to gain clarity on what you want, where you’re going, and how to get there. You can’t do it if you’re constantly distracted with interactions with others, stimulating input like video games and social media. Early am is great alone time.

If you want to improve your confidence in everyday life, go to the gym and train combat sports. An improved physique and the ability to defend yourself effectively will display confidence in all your day to day normal life interactions.

If you don't want to be left behind in the age of AI, becoming a generalist will provide more opportunity and you'll be able to weather the storm of change much easier versus a highly focused specialist.

I’d agree with this. It’s why all clients I worked for never knew of my tattoos until years later. Trust and credibility was built, execution was proven and relationships forged before anyone even saw a line of my ink. Then if an arm tattoo slipped out of a shirt during a…

Did you know that you can run the ChatGPT Codex container locally? It's very useful because you can test various different setup combinations without having to wait for the container to boot over and over on the Codex web UI. Just run it in Docker like this:

Stop watching YouTube videos and reading articles on how to do XYZ. Just go do XYZ. Learn as you go, through action of doing. You'll learn WAY more by doing said thing than by watching more videos or reading more. Yes, prepare and study, but start sooner than later.

Winners don't give a fuck about 'fair' because they are willing to do anything to get where they are going.

The sheer number of AI tools is overwhelming. You quickly cross a threshold of it being useful to it being a distraction when you have to juxtapose so many different tools with so many different models. My advice? Find something that works, then stick with it. If you want to…