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You don’t want to just collect feature requests. You aren’t building the product by committee. But the motivations and constraints behind those requests are critical.
The Mom Test
Rob Fitzpatrick
Don't close your mind to learning, and accept the challenges and new experiences that life will continue to throw at you, but "learning" and "preparing" for life is no longer task #1. Task #1 is actually just surviving with grace and living life. Stop trying to win, work on continuing the game. Sometimes that's one day at a time, sometimes it's one year at a time. The life-long learning, hustling, stress-driving pressure we get from society is somewhat necessary (at a cost) in Act 1, but if you let it keep riding you into Act 2, it's mostly masochism.
The Breaking Smart AMA -- Part 2
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Our metabolic engines shift and change to make room for increased activity costs, ultimately keeping daily energy expenditure within a narrow window. As a result, physically active people—whether it’s hunter-gatherers living today or in our collective past, or people in the industrialized world who exercise regularly—burn the same amount of energy as people who are much more sedentary.
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