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School for Startups Minutes

jim@schoolforstartups.com (Jim Beach)

The short vignettes are taken from School for Startups Radio. We release a quick thought to motivate or educate you about a different facet of entrepreneurship every day.

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SFS Minute 964: Imperfection

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2026/04/03

I want a good life, and I want a good life for you. So this week, we have gone through some of the components, listed them, and given some advice. I'm going to wrap that conversation up today, but before that, I want to review briefly. You need to work on positive, happy relationships in your life. You need to have something that's important, something that you do that's meaningful. You need to realize that enough is enough. You don't need absolutely everything. And you need to control one part of

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SFS Minute 963: Controlled Time

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2026/04/03

Do you have everything in the world that you want? I mean absolutely everything. If so, where do you put it? Oh, you got a bigger house so that you could have more stuff. A good life means that we eventually have enough, realize that, and quit accumulating stuff. This week, I've been talking about what the components of having a good life are, and we have realized some really important things. I'm going to share another one of those with you right after this. A good life means that you control some

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SFS Minute 962: Enough

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2026/04/03

Do we have a good life? Do you have a good life? When you think about yourself and what you have done in the last 20, 30, 80 years, do you feel like it's a good life? That is so important for us to think about and to make sure that we are creating the circumstances so that when we are at the end of our lives, we say yes to that question. So we need to think about it and actually spend some time making sure we're doing the right things. So this week, I'm going through some of the components that make

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SFS Minute 961: Meaning

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2026/04/03

We all want a good life. We want a good life for ourselves, our family, and our friends. The problem, though, is that we don't go to the next level and actually define what a good life means. So this week, that is what I am going to do. I'm going to talk about a good life and the components that make it up. I already talked about the fact that relationships are incredibly important to having a good life. I'll add another piece to that right after. One component of having a good life is to include

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SFS Minute 960: Relationships

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2026/04/03

I think, universally, everyone wants the same thing: a good life, right? We all wish that for ourselves and for our friends and family. We say, "I want to have a good life. I want to be happy." But we never go to the next level and define what that actually means, to say these are the components of a good life and how to work on each one. So that's what I'm going to do this week. I'm going to define the five components of having a good life and try to give you one or two pieces of advice on how to

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SFS Minute 959: Enough

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2026/03/28

This week, we have been talking about the idea that optimizing our lives to the maximum degree might not be such a good idea. This optimization culture quickly teaches us that there's always a better version of everything: a better routine, a better system, a better diet, a better version of you. That sounds awesome at first, but over time, it creates a moving target that you will never reach. There is one more suggestion I want to make on what you should do. I'll do that right after this. At some

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SFS Minute 958: Simplicity

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2026/03/28

Tim Ferriss, the man who wrote The 4-Hour Workweek, just recently revealed that he thinks we may have gone too far as a society in optimizing everything in our lives. Some people are wearing sensors on both wrists. But something interesting is starting to happen now. After years of adding tools and systems and routines and tracking, many people are starting to do something in the opposite direction. I'll tell you what it is in just a second. Some people are embracing simplicity. They are deleting

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SFS Minute 957: Meaning

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2026/03/28

This week, we're talking about optimizing your life and whether it can go too far. For example, you can't optimize your way into one thing, and we'll tell you what it is. Optimizing is great at improving efficiency. It helps you get more done and waste less time with better systems. But it does not create—I'll tell you what it doesn't—right after this. Meaning. It does not create meaning. There are great things about better systems, but we can't do that without something at the very base of it. We

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SFS Minute 956: Biohacking Can Go Too Far

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2026/03/28

This week, I'm pointing out that the idea of optimizing your life may have gone just a little bit too far. Today, I want to talk about biohacking and how it has already gone too far. For example, biohacking began as a very practical idea: get better sleep, improve your focus, eat better, make small changes that help your day work better. But like many ideas, it can escalate and go too far. I'll tell you what happened right after this. Optimizing your life may have gone too far with all of you

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SFS Minute 955: Optimization Becomes Obsessive

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2026/03/28

For the last 10-20 years, we've been obsessed with optimizing everything. Optimize your website, optimize your sleep, optimize your diet, your morning routine, and we have to track it, measure it, wear something on our wrist that tells us about it, improve it. Get more apps that do more things and tell us more about what we're doing. No one embodied this more than Tim Ferriss, the man behind The 4-Hour Workweek. He has actually come out and walked it back a little bit, though. I'll tell you what he

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SFS Minute 954: Bad News Business Model

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2026/03/21

This week, I've been trying to present a happy message that counters what we see in the world today. It is very scary right now, with our 401Ks going up and down. The stock market is crazy, the price of oil, inflation, we all know the problems that we are facing, but I've tried to share the message that good things are happening as well. For example, AI is going to give you an opportunity to level up. Learn it now, and your salary will go up quite a bit because of that. So many positive things. I

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SFS Minute 953: Speed

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2026/03/21

This week, we are looking at the world from a little bit further away. Instead of getting up close and personal in the micro analysis, we're doing a macro, 40,000-foot analysis, trying to show you that the world is actually getting better despite all of the bad things we see. Despite the wars and inflation and the stock market going up and down, good things are happening. I'll give you an example right after this. One of the big advantages that we have as small business owners, or just as

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SFS Minute 952: Gatekeepers

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2026/03/21

I am arguing this week that the world is better than we all think and feel, and that there's never been more opportunity. There are great things happening at the macro level, and I know it's hard to accept because the micro level, the war, the taxes, the inflation, my job being cut, all of that is so scary, but I'll tell you, if at the macro level, good things are happening. And I'll tell you one of those right after this. So here's the good news: the gatekeepers are gone. You do not need to ask for

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SFS Minute 952: Gatekeepers

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2026/03/21

I am arguing this week that the world is better than we all think and feel, and that there's never been more opportunity. There are great things happening at the macro level, and I know it's hard to accept because the micro level, the war, the taxes, the inflation, my job being cut, all of that is so scary, but I'll tell you, if at the macro level, good things are happening. And I'll tell you one of those right after this. So here's the good news: the gatekeepers are gone. You do not need to ask for

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SFS Minute 951: AI

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2026/03/21

These are scary times right now. We have elections coming up, and the other guys are already stealing it. We have a war going on that I don't think any of us really want. The market is going up and down like NCAA basketball, and my team is not winning, and it's a scary time. And then they throw AI at us. I want to share another way to look at it right after this. So let me tell you what's going to happen with AI. Every major technology shift has not eliminated work; it does, though, shift who gets

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SFS Minute 950: Systems

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2026/03/21

This week, I want to talk about some things that will make you happy and feel a little more content. You know, every day right now, it feels like the world is falling apart. We have wars, elections, markets going up and down. Your 401K is like a basketball. You turn on the news, and you only hear bad stuff. There's something that they don't tell you, though, and this week I'm going to focus on that. I'll be right back with my first example. What they don't tell us is that most of the systems

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SFS Minute 949: Literacy

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2026/03/14

I've been trying to point out that, at the macro level, the 30,000-foot level, things in the world are actually getting better. It's very hard to understand that and to feel it all. The news is bad. We're at war. Gasoline prices are going up. They say it's a hard time to be optimistic, but I've been trying to point out some ways that the world is getting better. I'll give you one more great example right after this. For most of human history, reading and writing have been very rare skills. Education

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SFS Minute 948: Environment

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2026/03/14

There is no doubt that these are difficult times to live in. We have the war in Iran, gas prices going crazy, and a possible recession. There is a lot to worry about. We all love to worry about the environment, and rightfully so. We have to keep our air and water clean, but we are always hearing that it's getting worse. I'll give you the reality in just a second. Air quality regulations, cleaner engines, and improved energy sources have reduced pollution in most major cities around the world. While

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SFS Minute 947: Violence

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2026/03/14

News coverage understandably focuses on all of the bad: the conflict, the crime, the instability. When we see this constantly, day after day, it can feel as if the world is becoming a more dangerous place every year. But research gives us a different story. I'll tell you what it is right after this. Across centuries, the overall rate of violence has declined significantly. War deaths as a percentage of the global population are lower than they have ever been. The lesson is surprising. Human society,

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SFS Minute 945: Poverty

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2026/03/14

These are difficult times all around. We are at war again. There are sleeper cells. They tell us they are going to attack in the middle of the night. Gas prices are soaring. We could be in another recession. It's just a hard time, isn't it? So I thought that this week, I would take a step back, look at things from a 30,000-foot level, and give us a sense of the macro. It's actually pretty encouraging. I'll share why in just a second. In the last three decades, extreme poverty has gone down by as

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