Notes to Myself

some advices for future me

It’s funny that the most important lessons we learn in life are somehow the hardest to communicate; they’re so clear in my head, but as I present them to someone, they sound clichéd. Anyways.. It’s the last Friday of 2025, I’m 23 years old, and here are a few things I have learned, I try, and I would like to keep reminding myself. so….

Dear Me,

1. Multi-tasking is a myth; be a serial Tasker - Multi-tasking often leads to exhaustion and poor performance. Pick a task, chop it into doable chunks, pick-finish-pick-finish. If you have more than 10 tabs open in your browser, close the ones that are not needed immediately, because you are going to get distracted/overwhelmed.

2. Send more cold emails, and genuine people respond - Have a good intent, but don’t expect, and things will start to align. We were able to interact with a few Google DeepMind Researchers, lots of startup founders/CEOs, thanks to one cold reach.

3. Think in Writing. If you are not able to put it in words, you have not understood it. It extends your working memory, and that chain of thoughts leads to some revelation. Keep a record of it. I have a hunch that the ideas will be generated outside of the brain. Think → Write → Tutor

4. Embrace embarrassment and get used to it; Ignore what others might think of you because they aren’t thinking of you.

5. 5 Minutes, that’s all you have to act on an Idea before it disappears forever, so act immediately, good or bad, it doesn’t matter, decide that later, it might just pivot into something beautiful. A life-changing idea that I’ll have will be the combination of a lot of small ideas that might not have made any sense alone. Don’t get stuck in the loop of decision-making; that “should I?” will ruin you. You should.

6. If you are impressed by someone’s work, take a moment to tell them.

7. When the situation has come to being right or being kind, always choose kind, kindness is a strength, not a weakness.

8. Be interested, to be interesting. The more interested you are, the more interesting you’ll be perceived as.

9. Your subconscious is a supercomputer. If you are stuck on something, sleep on it. You’ll have the answer in the morning. (Joseph Murphy’s book is a real deal)

10. In our family, we had some rules that our parents had decided; similarly, “I have a rule of X” is the only policy you need to get disciplined.

11. Speak slowly, pause frequently, pause before you say something, pause after you have said something, let listeners absorb the details

12. People like correcting people’s mistakes, to get the correct answer out of the internet, write mthe ost obvious wrong answer, and wait for it.

13. Remember the names of people and let them know that you remembered it; they’ll never forget yours. To remember the name, repeat once after they’ve told you with a greeting and ask a direct question, something funny that you’ll remember, and they won’t be offended.

14. Old books have the same words as the new ones, so given a chance, prefer old books.

15. Opportunities are attached to people.

16. Pay attention to what you pay attention to; it’s often missed.

17. If someone asks you for a favor that will hardly take a couple of minutes, do it.

18. Your outside of work can become your real work.

19. If you are reading a book and you don’t like it or start feeling that resistance, it is totally okay to abandon that read and not force reading; otherwise, you’ll end up hating “reading” as a whole.

20. All guns are loaded.

Have a good one, everyone!