#790: Chris Sacca How to Succeed by Living on Your Own Terms and Getting Into Good Trouble

I just have no fucking time for that. Like, that idea I told you about over the weekend where we were talking to our team and I was like, okay, I appreciate all your input but we're fucking doing it. And they're like okay, Q1? Q2? And I'm like, no, Q-Friday.

You also asked, who is someone I looked up to in a mentor? ... Right now, I have few if zero of them because I started realizing... anytime I put somebody on a pedestal, I realized it holds them to a universal purity test across everything.

Donald Trump is an example of what happens when someone is raised without anyone ever saying no to them.

We reinvented cigarettes, fentanyl-laced cigarettes, when we started social media with all the best intentions.

That is one of the major flaws of the Democratic party—it's you either sign up to everything they believe in or fuck you, you're out.

I think the biggest danger of raising kids with privileges that they turn out to be assholes.

I don't think you have to, like, work yourself into a state of unhealthiness anymore. But I also think you can't fucking phone this in, and I'm sick of apologizing for it.

When I quit Twitter in November of 2022, I lost 11 pounds in 6 weeks with no lifestyle changes. I had just been eating the cortisol of my mentions for years.

I always had a hustle. I always had a little bit of a side business. I mean, from the time I was six-years-old, I was going around the neighborhood selling walnuts that I poked holes in and called air fresheners or rocks that I found in a parking lot. I was literally going door-to-door.

Everyone thinks the cost of building a house is the amount of money you put into it. That's real. At the same time, it's the amount of time and crazy and bullshit and like shit breaks all the time that you put into it.

Your inbox is a to-do list to which anyone else can add an action item.

You ask me, what's changed since I was 30 or 40? I am way less patient. It's harder to work for me as a result.

We have a generation of young people who cannot tell when they're being bullshitted, because Mom and Dad were helicopter and snowplow parenting for them.

Nothing about About what's happening in America is surprising. I don't love it, but it doesn't shock me.