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You can get to do your favorite things most of the time, but probably not all of the time. If you are fortunate to be successful in what you do, you would need to have to consciously design your life choices.

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.

The best VCs will invest into a great idea, but there is no better validation that getting actual users. Even if all you're doing is collecting signup from ads on Facebook, for a product that doesn't exist.

If an organ falls out from its proper place, it will become swollen and swelled. In order to place the organ where it needs to be, doctors pour sugar on the organ, which absorbs the fluid to dry it out and shrink it. Now, the doctor can put the organ back in place.

He says how sunlight is extremely harsh. He asks if Belinda would like to remove her jacket. Belinda asks if she could also loosen some of her blouse buttons. She loosens all but one button.

Christopher thought he wanted to be in politics and serving his country was the right thing to do. Also Top Gun, the movie, was very inspiring on him as a young adult.

Ferriss believes that the more labels you apply to yourself, the stupider you become. You are also more prone to groupthink, which is incredibly dangerous. His role in this episode is not to get you to like or dislike Charles, but to pay attention to his thinking.

He is the founder of AngelList.

James states that a person will medicate by procrastinating because they are unsure about how their actions will be received. They may even have internal doubts that will prevent them from turning an idea into an action.

It took Roberto's parents a long time to accept it because they did not understood the life of a content creator, until he invited them down to some of the villas that he was getting paid to live in, and they realized it was perhaps not at all bad.

At its peak, Chowdy was making +$1.3M in ARR and selling 3400-3500 meals per week.

They had 1 chef, 5 cooks, and 1 driver to manage the whole operations.