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Smash Notes for the first week of April 2019

- Justin Kan tells the story of how he nearly drowned in the Pacific Ocean while spearfishing with his wife.
- Chamath Paliphapitiya tells Kara Swisher that he is not anyone's slave
- Austen Allred of Y Combinator shares a story of how he turned a failed startup blog into a huge success
- Naval Ravikant explains the difference between money, wealth and social status
- DHH, the founder of Ruby on Rails, Basecamp, and the author of "Rework" and "It does not have to be crazy at work" explains why years after becoming a millionaire he still shows up for work every day
- Tim Romero from Disrupting Japan explains to fellow podcasters what makes a great interview
- Bubs Darius Monsef, formerly of Creative Market and now the CEO of Brave Care shares why going to bed angry is actually good for you
- Rob Hope of One Page Love and Jason Schuller, formerly of Press75 share their passion for Word Press templates and how a $5 experiment turned Jason in a millionaire.
- Create team from This Wont Hurt A Bit medical podcast tells us all about Botox, and why you might want to reconsider injecting it.

We need a lot of environmental and economic change. It’s because we don’t have the mindset to balance it. We no longer feel good about ourselves as people, we’ve lost our defining faith in our future, and we don’t see each other deeply or treat each other well.

She loves the travel perks, especially her Mercedes Coupe.

Because it appears that the characters keep grabbing Belinda’s— which is something that should not be grab-able. If you’re grabbing that, then there’s something wrong.

There were some singers that appeared to Giselle as she was handcuffed to a bed. She tells Tony there were six singers, but there was only three of them. They were all wearing black thongs.

No. According to Selden, there was a disease that wiped out all the bananas in the world in the 50s. So, the bananas that we eat now are actually from a different plant that we refer to as the banana. If you eat a banana flavored candy, you are not truly tasting the banana that we eat today.

Emotional labor is the mental work on has to do for the job at hand. For example, the difference between people who quit a marathon at mile 20 and the ones that finish is not physical strength, it is being able to put one's feeling of tired aside and to finish.

Restating it, Kathryn does not believe in luck. She references back to Goggins’ book about the 40% rule, which says that we are only using 40% of our capabilities.

She mentions how people look up to founders as being glorified, and this is not the way we should view them. Kathryn states how anyone is capable of doing something that they think is amazing, but they just need to have the courage, heart, and put in the effort to achieving their dreams or ideas.

In bay area, for example, housing costs create pressure on people to jump ship pretty fast, switching companies every year. It is a rational economic strategy to maximize individual's gains, given startup uncertainty, but it is not great for startups.

To build a long-lasting conglomerate like Amazon, able to take on any new challenge, you need people who stay with the company, stay energized, and look forward to building the next chapter.

A quick, 30-second "elevator pitch" on what has Bernard done and what he is doing now.

Email list is one of the highest ROI marketing channels for commerce companies. Email can be a huge business.

Sam was inspired by "Daily Candy," a newsletter with 2 million subscribers that sold for $125 million dollars in 2004.