- The inability to learn from the mistakes of others has already taken away several years of my life. I do too many actions “for experience”, but my head is not made of iron — if it constantly beats against the wall, then one day I may not get up. - Creating a technological product alone is the same as trying to move a mountain. Either you have to crush rocks for ages and drag them, or you will break yourself at the very beginning of the journey. Startup needs a stable team, and it needs an organized leader. - There is no point in developing an MVP for months — it burns motivation and does not bring money. Rapid testing of hypotheses is the thing we need. Getting out to users as soon as possible and collecting feedback is the highest good. A detailed market research at the stage of the developing of an idea is the best solution that allows to nip 90% of unpromising projects in the bud. - We should not "play" too much with manual labor, especially if there are not enough hands. It quickly becomes a routine, and a routine that does not bring high results kills the desire to do what seemed to be a favorite thing three months ago. - Planning is a thankless task, but I can't find like-minded people without a plan. I've enjoyed inventing startups for too long and disliked building a working business for too long.

1. That your users do not care about the technologies you use. 2. Premature optimization is the root of evil. I built a whole project on the serverless tech that no one used.

As a sports person, I learn about my weak points after every failure and come up with new energy next time.

If I wanted to use a cliché, I would say that it is a step nearer to whatever destination one would call success, but I think in certain ways – even labelling an endeavour as "failure" or "success" can be a trap that we should avoid. Neither “success” nor “failure” is a destination. If I saw my own mental picture of success as a destination, and upon arrival, I decided to unpack the car after the journey and kick back while I crack open a beer, it's unlikely I'll spend very long in that place I imagine to be "success." This is not at all an admonition to never unpack the car, kick back, and crack open a beer. For a long time, I adopted Ralph Waldo Emerson's definition (which I found on one of the first pages of a Tony Robbins book – Unlimited Power, but that is neither here nor there) as perfectly acceptable. But as I accumulated more wrinkles and continued to observe, I realised that it may have been the perfect definition for a time in the past. These days I see success more as a state-of-mind, an indicator of how we play the cards dealt to us in any specific moment. Do I spend every waking hour in this supposedly blissful state of mind? "No, siree! Most definitely not." We're all alive and that means that we should never be stationary - even when it is in the "success" state of mind. Challenges occur and I sometimes get anxious or irritable or so sad that I'm crying my eyes out. But contentment, success, kindness, and gratitude are always the place that I do my best to veer towards even when current circumstances are challenging. Life is probably more challenging for most people than what it was five years ago. There is more unemployment, poverty, crime, and scams than ever before. Throwing in the towel would be totally understandable. But continuing to show up every day – regardless of whether we had to crawl there, and bringing along our “I choose hope and optimism” badge – that is the true litmus test (in my own admittedly unconventional mind) of inhabiting success. If we manage to do it without turning a blind eye towards people facing worse challenges all around us, and with boundaries in place just healthy enough not to be completely self-obsessed, but yet solid enough to prevent the scamsters from targeting us. If we do that – we are not failing at anything. At least – we’re not failing, yet.

that it is NEVER as bad as it feels in the moment.

1. There is no "failure", there is only experience. 2. One's "failure" is another's extreme "success". 3. "Failure" is a state of mind, not a state of being. 4. Commitment starts and consistency finishes. 5. Ease threatens progress more than hardship. 6. "Success" is romanticized as "failure" demonized. 7. Internal contentment > external expectations. 8. Nobody cares about your W/L like you assume. 9. Perfection is shooting the shot, not scoring. 10. "Failure": things didn't go my way? That's life.

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