There were many days we’d end up
back at zero, but I always felt like
I’d been very productive.
Hustling is to work what
surfing the Internet is to reading. If
you add up how much you read in a
year on the Internet—tweets,
Facebook posts, lists—you’ve read
the equivalent of a shit ton of
books, but in fact you’ve read no
books in a year. When I look back
on it, that’s what hustling was. It’s
maximal effort put into minimal
gain. It’s a hamster wheel. If I’d put
all that energy into studying I’d
have earned an MBA. Instead I was
majoring in hustling, something no