Category: Business

The day before yesterday I took a close look at the map and for some reason I drove to Chile through the worst border crossing in all of Latin America, instead of taking the new road to the salt lakes of Bolivia.

At the border I mentally cursed dirty – the customs officers made me unload all the things from the car, which is six suitcases and ten bags, backpacks and bags. A specially trained dog took away all the apples and bananas (rhetorical question: why canned crocodile food can be smuggled, but honey cannot?).

Then I watched the news and realized what it was all about. Bolivia has a military coup and a change of power, I would have made it to La Paz (where all the fuck ups happened) just that day

Do you ever have it happen that decisions you don’t understand at first turn out to be the right ones as a result?

I realized a long time ago that the most valuable resource for an entrepreneur is not time, money or even networking.

The most valuable resource is focused attention.

All the right decisions are born from a state of flow, when no one is pulling me and I am completely immersed in the task.

Remember how good it feels to think on airplanes? How to achieve this state every day? Just fly more often.) Just kidding.

Here are the three lifehacks that help me:

1. Enable silent mode with no notifications on all devices. This is the base, there’s not even much to comment on
2. Swim in ice water every day: invigorates and puts you in the right state of mind better than meditation
3. Delegate all the little things in life to helpers and assistants. Attention is like a muscle, you can’t do 1000 pull-ups in a row, can you? It’s the same here

Explained to the delivery guy how to find the door and got a dentist appointment? Сongratulations, the day is spent, pick it up and bring a new one.

How do you get in the right state of mind?

The Mercedes seems to be a smart car: it can steer on the highway while I drink coffee, parks itself, and can even dig itself out of the sand if it gets stuck on a wild beach

But pisses off periodically one moment: when you leave on the rear, the car sharply presses the brake to the floor and stops with a grinding and crunching, as if hit a kangaroo. The effect is epic: pedestrians in a radius of 20 meters jump up to the ceiling and scattered

Sent the car to the car service, and was shocked by the response. The manager wrote: we checked everything, the car behaves correctly, it’s a feature, not a bug! It turns out that the artificial intelligence decides that a pedestrian can jump on the car and activates emergency braking. Which, of course, is commendable, but could you: a) do it quieter? b) comment on the screen somehow?

What makes you happy/disappointed about artificial intelligence?