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Cynthia Szigeti taught both Conan O'Brian and Lisa Kudrow their first improv class back in 1986.

To get good at something, you have to practice, and by reading slow you can really grasp the meaning of the context and attain understanding, as opposed to flying through a bunch of books without ever realizing their meaning.

Avoid doing undifferentiated work that everyone is doing, but which adds no value.

Alfonse Stirbacker from Belgium— who, according to Belinda, isn’t bad for a first client.

He is the founder of AngelList.

When learning on your own, there is very limited perspective. When reading a book, listening to a podcast, etc., you learn about different ways to do things. This helps improve one's craft.

Basecamp team started by looking at the legacy apps and comparing real traffic to their forecasts. It turned out that by re-planning their spent , and taking advantage of AWS prepaid instances, they were able to save 250k out of $500k they were putting into legacy systems. After that, they wrote some tools to display what they were spending and where, and the team looked for sudden increases. Lots of charges were not obvious, and they had to go through AWS documentation’s and pricing charts to figure out what each line item was for. It was very time consuming, but at the end, Blake and team were able to save ~20% of their cloud storage bill.

Time is less. You have to start to prioritize and add things on a calendar. Sometimes you can't finish all you want, and the best you can do is chip away at it one bit at a time.

She isn't going all in one one model. She is happy to work with homeschoolers, public schools, children in hospitals, etc.

Technically, anyone can use Kai XR.

Aviel new both Marc Nager and Clint Nelsen, and he was the one to introduce them to Andrew Hyde and help negotiate the sale of the company.

Founders have more things in their heads, and so much more to worry about. They are constantly worried about uncertainty, about raising money and running out of money, about their employees; their minds are always "on."

Furthermore, founders are constantly bombarded by communications from the rest of the company. It is not uncommon for many founders to go to sleep and wake up with their phones, which impacts their quality of sleep.

In fact, founders are under such high pressure, they feel guilty for sleeping too much. They almost never sleep for the full 8 hours, very likely more like 5-6 hours at most.