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NATHAN BLECHARCZYK is the co-founder of Airbnb. In an interview for
this book Nathan referred me to his advice that originally appeared on
Lifehacker.com:
I try to fill my calendar in reverse, from the end-of-day to earlier; I try to
reserve the morning for doing "real work." I find I can focus more in the
morning whereas it's harder to get focused after having been bombarded
by meetings, so I try to save meetings for later in the day.
MIKE CANNON-BROOKES is the co-founder of Atlassian, an Australian
enterprise software company, with over 35,000 global customers. His
productivity advice:
Do one thing at once. Stop multitasking!
MARK CUBAN is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Magnolia Pictures,
Landmark Theatres, chairman of AXS TV and appears on the TV-show Shark
Tank. His productivity advice submitted for this book:
Never do meetings unless someone is writing a check.
MOHAMMED DEWJI is the CEO of Tanzania-based MeTL Group. Forbes
has called him the youngest billionaire in Africa. In an interview for this book,
Mohammed provided this productivity advice:
Making time for yourself is essential to maintaining mental fitness and it goes
without saying that mental fitness is inextricably linked to your success. Based
on personal experience, I have found that maintaining optimum energy levels
and focus becomes increasingly challenging as one embarks on new endeavors
and climbs the ranks. Particularly when your day consists of switching gears
between sifting through hundreds of emails and attending one meet after
another, it’s only natural for your eyes to get tired and your brain to slow
down as the day progresses.
For me, it’s a daily workout during my lunch hour that keeps me sane. On
most days, by 1:00 p.m. I have already put in about seven hours of work. At

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that time, it’s a no brainer that I need to recharge and refresh so that I can
handle the second half of my day with the same focus and energy as I did the
first half. Every person has a different way of staying invigorated and
recharging his or her batteries. It doesn’t matter what it is, you just have to
identify it and make time for it. I would strongly encourage new entrepreneurs
to heed this advice because a fresh mind holds the key to their success.
ANDREW MASON is the co-founder of Detour and former co-founder and
CEO of Groupon. In an interview for this book, Andrew provided this
productivity advice:
Rather than give a specific piece of advice (I have tons but none of it is rocket
science), I'll just say that actually being disciplined about adopting these
habits is, in my experience, a huge differentiator of successful people.
I often meet people who seem smarter than me yet are less capable because
they don't have the self-discipline and/or self-confidence to introspect on their
ability to do what they think they're going to do and find ways to iteratively
improve. Amazingly, I think it's as simple as that. It's kind of a sore spot for me
because I can't understand why more people don't take it seriously.
If I was building a character in a business video game and I had ten character
points to distribute I'd put 3 of them into intelligence and 7 of them into self-
discipline.