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Shaan Puri

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Jan 04 3 ways to hijack the creative part of your brain: 1. Morning Mud we mistakenly think greatness is clean. Like you're supposed to wake up, meditate, cold plunge, sip green tea -- and then produce brilliant work. Nope. You gotta work like a pig. Wake up, and roll in the mud. Seinfeld spent the first 2 hours of his day writing jokes. Why? because if you want great jokes, you gotta write a lot of bad jokes. He did that everyday, for 40+ years. Less than 0.1% of those jokes ever made it into his standup set. Quantity is the mother of quality. b..bu..buut what about writer's block? "there's no writers block" he said. "there IS scared. there IS lazy. But there's no writers block." You can cure writers block like it's a simple case of the hiccups: "just sit down and accept your mediocrity" Translation: the harder you try to be great, the more you paralyze your creativity. Instead, be willing to roll in the mud. Make bad stuff, everyday. Ed Sheeran: "I don't try to be great. When I walk in the studio, I remind myself 'today, I must dare to suck'...you can never make a great song, if you're afraid to make a bad song" The first 2 hours of the day. Sit down and create. Before you check the news, twitter, and stock market. BEFORE YOU PUT ANYTHING IN YOUR BRAIN... make something. Coders code. Writers write. Musicians play music. It's not going to be good. It's not SUPPOSED to be good. Good comes later. You will only be as great as you're willing to be bad. 2. Engineered Rest If you're reading this - you work too much, and it's suffocating your creativity. All great work is on the other side of a breakthru idea. How do you get a breakthrough? 3 places: 1) in water 2) in motion 3) after a nap Ever notice you get your best ideas in the shower? That's because your brain shifts from Executive Mode (doing tasks) to Default Mode (connecting dots) "Creativity is just connecting things" - Steve Jobs Aaron Sorkin (writer of west wing, social network) showers 8x a day when writing scripts. Einstein used to float on a boat without a motor at sea. The coast guard was worried he'd drift away. He said "good, more time to think" Darwin used to go for long walks in nature. He'd kick a stone every lap. He started calling his problems "4 stone problems" and "5 stone problems" JK Rowling came up with Harry Potter on a train. Edison, Einstein, Salvador Dali all took very short naps, and woke themselves up (holding a key, or metal ball that would drop and clang when they fell asleep) - because the brain enters a hypogogic state which allows for creative connections. Showers, Naps, Swimming, Walking -- these look lazy. What's more important to you: Looking productive or being productive? Just like athletes and bodybuilders use sleep to grow their muscles - you must give yourself permission to relax. Clock out so your subconscious mind can clock in. 3. THINK INSIDE THE BOX Creativity loves constraints. Dr. Suess was an up and coming writer. His editor bet him $100 he couldn't write a book using less than 50 words. "it was damn tough. but that's what made it fun. It gave it that bounce" The book (Green Eggs and Ham) went on to be his all-time best selling book. The lie we're told is that you need to "think outside the box" If you study the great ones, you see they do the opposite. They put themselves INTO a tight box. Fewer options. Tight deadlines. Less features. ^these are the tools of the master creators that's just a taste, reply DM if you want me to DM you the full list 146 8 43 12.9k 3.6k .
Jan 04 Morning piano practice https://t.co/o1KAnm9eye 129 0 26 9.4k 47 .
Jan 02 RT @platopoker: Want to get excited about 2026 and plan to have an epic year! Watch the video below. @ShaanVP @JesseItzler @myfirstmilpod h… 0 1 0 0 140 .
Dec 31 misogi is a japanese ritual - one hard, year defining challenge i heard about it from @JesseItzler last year on the pod  for 2025 my misogi was… learning piano from scratch https://t.co/yl1ppqPpf7 3.4k 186 302 293.7k 198 .
Dec 31 guts > brains 607 46 94 30.8k 16 .
Dec 23 Anyone got a great idea on where I should stay for a family Tahoe Ski trip? - ski lessons (first time, ~5 year old kids) - nice village/area to hangout in (family friendly) Debating if I should do airbnb+snowschoolers or stay at northstar hit me with your recommendations! 113 1 82 57k 277 .
Dec 23 this one is ...controversial Chris is fascinating. he is an investor who: - picks stocks - based on tiktok comments (trend signals) - does options, with leverage He says he's turned ~$20k into ~$70-80M in gains doing this! 356 16 37 100.9k 224 .
Dec 22 RT @myfirstmilpod: “The more valuable you are, the less valuable your company is.” @ShaanVP and @ryandeiss talk about the quiet tradeoff f… 0 4 0 0 140 .
Dec 17 annnndddd…. we’re LIVE! 71 2 27 15.6k 23 .
Dec 17 we're doing our only LIVE show of hte year in an hour! come hang Me, sam and steph -- THE 2025 Milly Awards https://t.co/Egj2ykGHbm 84 3 13 46k 135 .
Dec 14 They Foxconned Kyrie 96 2 13 28.6k 20 .
Dec 12 this is my “good version” of a midlife crisis 142 6 15 31.5k 45 .
Dec 11 This might be the most insane, fun, fulfilling thing I’ve done in years… I quit running companies to coach a local high school varsity basketball team https://t.co/2bjopfNpU8 519 9 53 72.6k 175 .
Dec 11 Follow the account for more: https://t.co/0Bun6uvyHb 14 1 3 5.9k 53 .
Dec 10 watch this man: https://t.co/AcDOH2N2TJ 19 4 5 9.6k 39 .
Dec 10 I LOVE THIS GUY one of my favorite guests ever. billionaire injury lawyer John Morgan If you smashed Walt Disney, Harvey Spector, and a Blu Ray DVD of Landman Season 1 together -- this is what you get https://t.co/2EGCgm1PGr 221 10 20 25.2k 226 .
Dec 09 The best founders and companies have what I calll “escalating ambition” Elon starts by trying to send a plant into space. Now spaceX is launching reusable rockets, starlink Zuck started just trying to build a cool thing for colleges, now 1/3rd of all humans use his apps Blake bringing supersonic flight back, and now power 450 18 26 76k 327 .
Dec 08 if you've already earned your last dollar, why are you trading good hours for bad money? https://t.co/PAnipgOT48 198 7 22 256k 112 .
Dec 05 RT @myfirstmilpod: From having no money in his bank and living in a garage to building a $1,000,000,000 empire with a multi-million person… 0 5 0 2 139 .
Dec 02 how do i mute all chatgpt reply boys 176 1 93 31.6k 36 .
Dec 02 My default answer to why I’m passing on an investment https://t.co/ru7yUkG42j 436 11 36 46.2k 77 .
Dec 02 👀 87 3 10 33.5k 1 .
Dec 01 Great hang with Ben Horowitz: the “Z” of a16z Takeaways: 1. Confidence as a ceo. why this matters and what it looks like 2. Why most business books are awful 3. Fun stories about Zuck, solving Tupac’s murder case, etc https://t.co/fLZ9JqUulv https://t.co/vkGccpBeqx 107 5 19 17.9k 272 .
Nov 30 😅 83 0 10 27.2k 1 .
Nov 26 Raising $$ is a "false positive" -- it sounds like winning, but really you're just starting. A 'true positive' signal -- our ecom brand just hit 100k fans in a private FB group. There's no special perks or discounts. Just a place for people who love the brand to hang out. https://t.co/fEJkVnj72N 209 3 35 27.7k 299 .
Nov 26 RT @myfirstmilpod: We chat to @pitdesi - the most ‘interesting’ guy in tech & a $450M VC on 7 business ideas. They may or may not sound ill… 0 20 0 0 144 .
Nov 20 Did a solid 10 minutes of content on “May I Meet You™️” today https://t.co/kPelvZ2O12 94 2 26 14.3k 85 .
Nov 20 I can’t figure out if Michael burry is a genius or if he’s a paranoid sally Reading @michaeljburry tweets is like being in the writers room for the big short 2 134 1 38 48.5k 161 .
Nov 19 I made a powerpoint presentation showing every business I tried (and failed at) before I finally 'made it' 131 5 21 35k 106 .
Nov 18 RT @thesamparr: BE CHALANT. https://t.co/Y6evCq0Yp8 0 110 0 0 51 .
Nov 12 The first 15 mins of this had me laughing 75 1 23 28k 41 .
Nov 11 Step 1 - trade luka because he's fat and injured Step 2 - Recieve AD, who immediately gets fat, and injured Step 3 - Luka gets skinny and is awesome the most entertaining outcome is the most likely 162 4 36 18k 202 .
Nov 07 RT @myfirstmilpod: .@awilkinson joins MFM again and tells you the best (and worst) business models to start before 2026. Agencies, SaaS, R… 0 12 0 1 140 .
Nov 07 If you bought Zcash 30 days ago when I posted this you’re up ~400% 275 2 37 93.1k 66 .
Nov 06 UPDATE from the soccer mom community -- new Starbucks limited edition cups are selling for $400-$500 Starbucks meets labubu meets stanley cup https://t.co/TWPtdAOeL1 123 7 30 24.7k 166 .
Nov 05 "nobody's stopping you" one of my favorite stories from @RyanQualtrics on how he built Qualtrics into a $12b+ company: https://t.co/MaR7cLCqbc 226 12 14 25k 144 .
Nov 03 8 months ago I asked @awilkinson what he's investing in and he mentioned this stock IREN. It was $6 bucks -- today it's 67. I made a small buy while we were recording. pretty insane call, up 10X so far https://t.co/GtKLlnjgAz 271 14 24 57.7k 229 .
Nov 03 This was fun. New vlog - a 24 hour hang with someone who’s got my dream job: nba team owner https://t.co/VNKcaFUNqj 230 5 27 168.2k 118 .
Oct 31 help me decide... my trainer made this song with AI. Is it a: https://t.co/FSC1JowL0O 19 3 8 20.1k 89 .
Oct 31 What the hell is Apple doing? *Failed to make a car *No AI investments *Siri still sucks *just releasing the same phone over and over again How can you miss AI? how is that even possible? 9.9k 334 1.6k 2.64M 194 .
Oct 30 @superpower check out more here: https://t.co/jb7ex4a5Ew 21 1 2 10.4k 56 .
Oct 30 I’ve invested ~$19M into 100 startups. A few big winners so far (deel, replit, mercury, supabase) Here’s the next one I think will break out: @superpower I started as a customer (app is amazing), then investor & now official partner My goal = lose 20lbs in the next 12 months! https://t.co/JWORi74Kiq 413 20 61 148.7k 307 .
Oct 23 RT @ishanhaq: I wouldn’t be where I am today without the opportunity to work with @ShaanVP I had the talent, ambition, time and scrappines… 0 1 0 2 140 .
Oct 22 RT @StevenBartlett: @ShaanVP the email I sent you at 19/20 years old changed my life in so many ways! - thanks for taking a chance on me!… 0 5 0 10 138 .
Oct 22 Who's young, hungry, and talented? I'm bringing on 1 person to work directly with me on the podcast. Apply if: * you love the show * you have design AND/OR video editing skills * you love business, love content, and want to get paid to be obsessed with those two things What's in it for you? * money * learning - you'll learn more in 1 year with me than 4 years in a normal job * fun - for the curious, high energy, good sense of humor person - this will feel like play. how to apply -- write me an email shaan@shaanpuri.com that I can read in 2 minutes that will show me why you're the person for the job ps. the last two young guys who did this with me were @StevenBartlett and @ishanhaq and they turned out alright :) 270 17 50 73.6k 732 .
Oct 17 man this is awesome. simple life advice everyone should listen to: https://t.co/KxL5TRJ8Xe 193 10 15 63k 90 .
Oct 16 this is from 20 years ago. Apple needs this intensity today https://t.co/TI31azyeCN 263 14 34 27.3k 83 .
Oct 15 I’m the Michael @saylor of my local coffee shop https://t.co/ElSWh7rEn7 96 1 17 16.7k 71 .
Oct 15 Bill Gurley walked away from free money at Benchmark and the fame of the BG2 podcast He really might be enlightened 661 7 47 94.8k 117 .
Oct 15 This is basically the optimal strategy to become president 319 10 21 40.8k 58 .
Oct 14 True. This is why I don’t do ozempic. I don’t just want the physical win of getting in shape. I want the mental win of being the guy who could get himself into great shape 1.2k 38 65 100.6k 171 .
Oct 13 Driving to Best Buy for a 45 minute private demo of notification goggles is my Guantanamo Bay 327 3 23 79.6k 93 .
Oct 11 If there’s something more fun than watching your kid play sports, I’m not aware of it 304 7 73 34k 85 .
Oct 08 Respect for everyone involved making this. Doing what you think is cool, regardless how obscure or niche it seems to others 256 9 23 52.5k 125 .
Oct 08 This is wild. There’s only 1500 sperm donors and 100,000+ seeking donors?! Great initiative , and great name “pre seed” 80 0 23 33.5k 120 .
Oct 08 Turns out the greatest startup idea of the last 10 years was a chatbot where you ask a question and it answers with something a guy wrote on Reddit 8 years ago 79.5k 4.1k 405 3.39M 159 .
Oct 08 "A man is the sum of his projects" This has been my motto for the past year. it doesn't matter if you're building rockets to go to mars or building model trains in the basement. man is happiest when fully engaged in a project. WHICH PROJECT? picking worthy projects matters, but pursuing them with full force matters more. What's a "worthy" project? Simple answer: Just do the most interesting idea in your head right now. As a kid, this might start with building a giant lego set. Or modding a video game. You can start with goofy sounding projects (my first business was a sushi restaurant) -- Your "taste" in projects will improve as you go. To get 3 michellin stars in "project taste" it needs to pass these 3 tests for me: - it excites me to try - it scares me to try - the product is simply me, pushed out to the world (productizing a part of yourself) My podcast is a good example. I was scared nobody would listen. I was excited to try it. And the podcast itself is literally my personality pushed out via RSS. 5 years later, we've done over 100M+ downloads. The 2nd thing "pursuing the project full force" is much harder. Most of us are tigers in the zoo. We have forgotten how to hunt. How to sprint. We become trained (by school, jobs) that weak action is normal. half-assing projects takes many forms (procrastination, inconsistency, playing it safe, giving up, etc.) it's very hard to break a weak-action habit alone. The fastest solve is to find a group of high-action people and join their projects. Their pace & intensity are very contagious. Humans are pack hunters, and you will learn to run at the pace of the pack. This is why there are so many examples of "mafias" (Paypal mafia), coaching trees (bill walsh), and talent hotspots (dagestan's wrestlers). Some people have wanderlust. They make lists of places to travel. Here's my creative bucket list (projects I want to do before I die): ✅ make a podcast with 1M+ subscribers ✅ launch a restaurant ✅ create a clothing brand 🔳 build a creative/business school i'd send my kids to 🔳 write a killer book 🔳 Make a reality TV show (eg. love is blind, survivor) 🔳 Buy the rights to a book and turn it into a movie 🔳 Make a music album 🔳 Learn to play piano by ear 🔳 Create an event that's like Tony Robbins minus the cringe 960 68 73 73k 2.3k .
Oct 06 Zcash - the case for it: - founder is missionary (like satoshi, Vitalik) - actual use case (money that unlike bitcoin, ETH is actually private/anonymous) - fair token - momentum from community (genzcash) and principled leaders (naval, balaji, Vitalik, etc) 678 37 74 197.9k 264 .
Oct 05 Alright alright, I can’t take it anymore —- how does he do this?? 310 3 39 131.3k 65 .
Oct 01 Sora is about to smash every download record 284 3 50 88k 44 .
Sep 30 excited to watch this one. sam sat down with the guy who wrote "unreasonable hospitality" He owns eleven madison park, the restaurant that inspired the Forks episode on the Bear, one of my favorite TV episodes of all time. As a founder, stealing from other, unrelated industries is a huge hack. In internet businesses, we suck at hospitality. So if you go from a 2 to a 5, you're better than everyone else. 212 8 22 41.2k 411 .
Sep 25 me too usain bolt, me too. https://t.co/AC4DgJOW57 230 2 19 26k 50 .
Sep 25 RT @_VladanIlic: The best 15 minutes you'll invest this month insane value from @ShaanVP on how to get rich From 0 → Rich 💰 4 rules that… 0 5 0 0 140 .
Sep 25 some inside baseball here: Nick bought a majority stake in Somewhere (~$52M price), but there was one problem. The entire exec team was US based. They were good, but very expensive. Huge salary overhang. He went in, re-built the exec team with only overseas talent (listen to them in the video). since then - revenue is at all time highs, and profit margin strong because exec team expenses reduced 80% huge win. 275 10 48 200.4k 423 .
Sep 25 Tesla people.. how much do you trust your FSD? Tempted to use it for every drive - is that normal? 1.5k 39 1.1k 221.4k 99 .
Sep 24 support my addiction : https://t.co/ISrNWvvkNH 32 0 1 9k 46 .
Sep 24 I don’t care about youtube views. except when they’re up +94% in 6 hours. Then I care, a lot. https://t.co/76AtGA7Zw1 252 2 37 31.3k 117 .
Sep 21 watch the full thing here: https://t.co/Ew81AgJd4o 15 0 1 19.3k 50 .
Sep 21 Scott Galloway: “hands down, the best investments are distressed assets” he turned $2.5m —> $15m by buying FTX bankruptcy claims so we hunted down his “distressed assets guy” to explain how it works if you’re serious about making money, watch this: https://t.co/lQnrsNAznz 297 10 22 54.5k 279 .
Sep 18 what a great tweet. Vote yes to my trillion dollar comp package (fwiw. I vote yes. no brainer) 97 2 14 32k 96 .
Sep 18 800,000 subscribers THE LINE CANNOT BE STOPPED https://t.co/OHWqk8z4Ja 421 2 60 54.9k 71 .
Sep 15 things I learned from this episode: 1. "Movement Marketing" --- instead of promoting your company, promote the movement your company helps make possible (eg. Vibe Coding instead of Replit) 2. How to get your company to show up in chatgpt answers (the new SEO) 3. his 3 rules of business: - never own a restaurant - never be a landlord - never compete with Sam Altman 518 32 48 78.1k 375 .
Sep 09 the big filters: - what you put in your body (food) - what you put in your mind (media/social media) - who you spend time with (friends) - what you choose to give a f*ck about (what you let bother you) 353 20 33 44k 203 .
Sep 05 Conor should fire his content guy - camouflage color suit - terrible camera angle And worst of all, they took one of the most charismatic talkers of all time and turned him into a teleprompter robot smh 564 7 79 78.3k 207 .
Sep 02 this works for companies too instead of trying to be a genius and do something new to grow your company, first ask: “what are we doing that’s stupid as hell, that we should just stop doing?” 422 19 34 37.4k 191 .
Sep 01 The original Tesla master plan was sharp, powerful and real This one reads like it’s written by a committee 136 4 42 45.5k 108 .
Aug 30 RT @salilmalkan: I don’t know why it took me realize this but @ShaanVP and @thesamparr have the BEST podcasts in business right now. Insane… 0 4 0 4 140 .
Aug 29 new one minute blog: excuses https://t.co/A97N7EvETW 470 48 38 49.3k 52 .
Aug 28 his book is banned in prisons, treasured by billionaires, and quoted by rappers... Robert Greene podcast is out! (48 Laws of Power): https://t.co/YOaC1gLoCW 179 13 34 61.3k 160 .
Aug 27 just dropped out of the spotify top 50 podcasts need to kerri strug vault our way back in https://t.co/2W1Ijfl80b 256 9 102 63k 114 .
Aug 27 So true… In college, I couldn’t wait to get out of reading and lectures to have free time Now, I can’t wait for free time so I can read and listen to lectures (podcasts) 546 17 36 51.5k 171 .
Aug 26 women bond by discussing problems men bond by doing the dumbest thing possible to avoid thinking about life problems This is why golf rules. You get to drink & drive tiny clown cars, and try to hit a tiny ball into a tiny cup 300 yards away for 6 hours. 1.3k 25 63 81.6k 260 .
Aug 26 cool analysis here https://t.co/MSFIbdYvsm 111 6 8 46.2k 42 .
Aug 25 i think we should all be using "tariffs" in day to day social interactions I'm gonna slap tariffs on coworkers if they don't reply fast enough my son could tariff the shit out of me if i don't give him ipad with dinner. could be the move 164 2 18 33.8k 241 .
Aug 25 great reminder: “when the time comes to buy, you won’t want to” https://t.co/mYGAzp1rgo 326 18 9 39.5k 89 .
Aug 24 RT @myfirstmilpod: “A lot of people say, ‘we’re not going to try to catch a falling knife.’ And I believe you make the big money catching… 0 54 0 0 140 .
Aug 22 full episode - https://t.co/52Oj8TJkyX 14 2 1 13.9k 38 .
Aug 22 "When I see memos from Howard Marks in my mail, they're the first thing I open and read. I always learn something." - Warren Buffett Well, @WarrenBuffett, if you’re watching… Howard dropped a teaser for his new memo on the pod: https://t.co/WolzzfAFRs 155 14 17 22.8k 254 .
Aug 19 1/ I don’t run 2/ I don’t care about people who run 3/ And yet… I’m fascinated by this guy (Truett Hanes) who runs marathons in jeans.  I love it not because of the running, but because of the marketing. This is a perfect example of what Seth Godin called a Purple Cow.  If you see a cow on the side of the road, it’s forgettable.  But what if you saw a purple cow. WHAT?! You pull over, take pictures, and tell all your friends.  99% of companies are just cows in their marketing. Forgettable. This guy pulled a perfect purple cow. Running a marathon in under 3 hours wearing jeans.  Even though he’s not the fastest runner - he gets more media coverage, sponsorships and attention than everyone else in the race (combined). Find your purple cow. 302 13 62 67.9k 753 .
Aug 17 🫡 48 0 12 22.6k 1 .
Aug 15 What happened to hyperloop? Didn’t @shervin and 1-2 other companies raise a bunch of money to do it? - tech didn’t work? - costs too high? - bad execution ? 88 3 18 42.6k 157 .
Aug 14 Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm 1.3k 114 113 75.4k 67 .
Aug 14 There’s 1.3M people watching Taylor swift on a podcast right now That might be the most watched live podcast of all time (?) https://t.co/ad79PI5S6z 149 6 33 32.7k 149 .
Aug 13 “think like a boss, you become the boss” one of my favorite stories told on the pod: https://t.co/ylbaXDTgEu 3.5k 324 46 156.2k 109 .
Aug 13 RT @myfirstmilpod: why the “smartest person in the class” usually fails at business: https://t.co/nbhbpMUx4F 0 90 0 4 108 .
Aug 13 ^ this should be the recruiting page for all @elonmusk companies 26 1 4 9.2k 64 .
Aug 13 “I thought I had a great work ethic when I was working with Larry Ellison, or when I had my own company… but no company has the same work ethic and the commitment and the sacrifice factor as an Elon company.” - Hayes Barnard https://t.co/ExySNtfPMK 920 85 15 114.3k 248 .
Aug 13 just dropped a pod with a guy who: - flunked out of 1st grade (dyslexia) - now has built a $10B company - worked with Elon for years - is the most energy rich, "do something new everyday" type of friend to hang with you can watch here: https://t.co/87WxdFv7Rd 249 16 28 68.8k 266 .
Aug 13 This is like @paulg & @jesslivingston finding Sam Altman, Twitch, and the Reddit guys in the first YC batch Except YC kept finding Kelly Clarksons every year for 20 more years 86 4 14 28.2k 181 .
Aug 12 5/ 😂 😂 23 2 2 16.9k 6 .
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