Could you make a video covering your principles for success, daily processes, and common pitfalls to avoid for people in business? You mentioned focusing on revenue-generating activities, effectiveness, first‑principles thinking, and neuroscience; I’d like to hear your take on these and learn about overall optimization.

That's a great video topic, and I was actually considering doing something similar soon. The core 80/20 lesson I can share is: don’t live according to an environment that was designed for you—design your own environment instead. We’re born into a default setting, like being dropped into an ongoing football game (capitalism) without knowing the rules, and our initial training comes from whatever ‘coach’ happens to be around, often not the best. Don’t assume the lifestyle you’ve been given is optimal, or that the usual advice—go to school, attend office hours, ask questions, study with a specific method—is automatically true. Evaluate everything from first principles and only adopt what makes sense to you. Maker School is a good example: when I started it, people said I couldn’t do it alone, yet we now have dozens of coaches and staff managing replies. I questioned whether I really needed all that and decided to design my own environment first before taking others’ advice at face value. Small lifestyle tweaks—like leaving your vitamins out on the counter instead of hiding them in a cupboard—have led to major results for me. For instance, I wake up, see the vitamins, and remember to take them. I also keep a post‑it on my computer reminding me to send a certain number of Upwork applications each day, mentally queuing the actions needed to reach my goals. These tiny bits of planning run contrary to much of what society tells us to do, but as long as you build your environment from the ground up, you can often achieve the outcomes you want.