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Ten Bullets - For The Obsessed 🏴

Zach Pogrob

Every Saturday, I send out 10 ideas I can't stop thinking about. To help you build companies, make content, and follow your obsession.

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🏴 On intensity, intellectual obsessions, and the pain cave. Ten Bullets.

To the obsessed, Here are your weekly Ten Bullets. A list of ideas I can't stop thinking about- to help you build companies, make art, and find your obsession. 1. On fear: "If you’re not scared, you’re not pushing: In the summer of 2020, in the midst of some pillow talk with my wife, I confronted the existential dread I had towards the leap of faith I was about to take by starting Varda [his company]. I thought, why would I do this to myself, starting a company is a miserable experience....

5 months ago • 5 min read

To the obsessed, Here are your weekly Ten Bullets. A list of ideas I can't stop thinking about- to help you build companies, make art, and find your obsession. I ran my first marathon on Saturday, in Memphis. It was one of the best experiences of my life. I entered a new level of The Dark Place, and saw a new version of myself, that will be here forever. I'll write more on the experience, the journey, and what's next with running. But all I know is, I haven't been obsessed with something like...

5 months ago • 5 min read

To the obsessed, Here are your weekly Ten Bullets. A list of ideas I can't stop thinking about- to help you build companies, make art, and find your obsession. 1. On creating for yourself: "I think it's terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people's expectations. They generally produce their worst work when they do that. Never work for other people at what you do. Always remember the reason you initially started was that there was something inside yourself- that you felt- that if...

6 months ago • 4 min read

To the obsessed, Here are your weekly Ten Bullets. A list of ideas I can't stop thinking about- to help you build companies, make art, and find your obsession. 1. On thinking and doing: "It's easy to take credit for the thinking. Oh I thought of this three years ago. But when you dig deeper, you find that the people that really did it were also the people that worked through the hard intellectual problems. I've seen a lot of people make things, I've seen a lot of people fail. The people that...

6 months ago • 5 min read

To the obsessed, Here are your weekly Ten Bullets. A list of ideas I can't stop thinking about- to help you build companies, make art, and find your obsession. 1. On obsession: "There's one thing that's true in every single instance. I learned this from watching all these documentaries of all these different people in all these different industries. From athletes, like Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, Michael Jordan. Then musicians, like Pink Floyd, and Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Michael Jackson....

6 months ago • 3 min read

To the obsessed, Here are your weekly Ten Bullets. A list of ideas I can't stop thinking about- to help you build companies, make art, and find your obsession. 1. On running: "There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who run. And everyone else. Running is an addiction (if you're doing it right). Like any decent addiction, you have to get your fix. A day without is always a bad day. A day with..well, that's just another day. Running is; a time for thinking. Running is; where ideas...

6 months ago • 4 min read

To the obsessed, Here are your weekly Ten Bullets. A list of ideas I can't stop thinking about- to help you build companies, make art, and find your obsession. Presented by Mindsera, an AI-powered journal I'm obsessed with: I believe if you write a letter to yourself every night, you can solve all your problems. Mindsera takes that principle, and enhances it. It gives you analysis and prompts to see your life and problems, from new angles. It's like upgrading the software of your mind.They're...

7 months ago • 5 min read

zach.blog 10.8.23 On extremes Extremes have always felt like home. In spring 2019, I was an EMT for six months. I was about to graduate college, with a half-dream of becoming a doctor. Really, I knew I'd never go to med school. But I did this any way. This was the same time I started posting on Instagram. I started a business. I got in the best shape I'd ever been in. It's not a coincidence. I worked in Johnson City, New York, near my school. It had (and has) a huge drug/fentanyl problem....

7 months ago • 2 min read

To the obsessed, Here are your weekly Ten Bullets. A list of ideas I can't stop thinking about- to help you build companies, make art, and find your obsession. 1. On your 10-year-old self: If you're stuck in life, you have to tap into your 10-year-old self. Play sports. Meditate. Go to therapy. Whatever works. Your job is to time-travel back to when things were simple. Back then, your dreams were pure. Your potential was limitless. Because there was no planning. No procrastination. You just...

7 months ago • 3 min read

To the obsessed, Here are your weekly Ten Bullets. A list of ideas I can't stop thinking about- to help you build companies, make art, and find your obsession. PS: Here are two pictures from Israel, from a Birthright trip I went on in 2018. It's an insanely beautiful place full of beautiful people. IDF soldiers especially. It's unimaginable the evil happening there, and the hate happening around the world. I'm sorry to anyone involved, who has friends/family there, or is suffering in any way....

7 months ago • 6 min read
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