Five co-founders are too many.
If you are working on someone else’s crappy idea, think about working on your own crappy idea.
Learn about the stock market and invest right away. You’ll make money, lose money, then understand money.
Build as many projects as time allows. It’s nice to have the option to pick and choose.
If you don’t do the thing you want to do today, 5 years from now you’ll remember and wonder how different your life would have been if you did.
If you are bored, create something. Make a clay pot, a drawing on paper, a JavaScript file, a wooden structure, a shoe rack, a sand castle, a matchstick home, a story. Make something you can look at the end result and you’ll never get bored again…
Life is short, so work on things that matter.
Read more - it really helps with anything you will do.
Write more - get a pen and a notebook, not a computer.
No matter how lazy you think you are, how fat/thin you are, start exercising. Just do the basics at the beginning and slowly progress. Seriously just start with a 5 minutes of Jumping Jacks in the morning. You’ll feel much better for the rest of your day.
Non-tech project managers in tech teams are beyond useless; they’re often plainly harmful to the business.
Doing what you think would be best (i.e. learning Russian) is most often not as good as doing something similar that fits your routine better (i.e. there’s a Polish guy in your building that’s willing to teach you Polish). Another formulation: Don’t force your dreams but rather take (with gratitude) what is given/in front of you.
Hobbies are vitally important to keeping you happy and healthy, don’t neglect them.
Sleep is damn important.
The days are long but the years are short.
Money doesn’t buy happiness, it buys choices, some of which may make you happier than others.
If you don’t make a decision, that decision will be made for you.
“When the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him.” - Napoleon
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” - John A. Shedd