Paul Buchheit

TL;DR

Paul Buchheit presents six mental patterns (defaults) for founders to develop an independent mind and create innovative startups: "I don't know anything," "kill all daemon processes," "yes and thank you," "choose the more interesting path," "love what you do," and "maintain a healthy disregard for the impossible.

Key insights

• The most important technology is the patterns in your mind, not transistors or algorithms; changing those patterns steers life like a rudder on a ship.
• Small decisions made thousands of times a day matter more than big decisions, which are the inevitable result of those small choices.
• Experience can be dangerous because it makes you believe you already know the answer, closing you off to larger truths; naive young founders often succeed because they don't know what's supposed to be