Elliot Bonneville

Had a great conversation with my wife today about advice. I've been calling up a ton of real estate investors that I've been referred to via friends and family, or other contacts that I've made. I've learned a lot and had some great conversations,

A friend and I had an interesting discussion about perseverance today. Perseverance: persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. He pointed out that having perseverance in small matters is what allows us to have perseverance in larger ones. How we

Why do I write every day, even when I have nothing to say? It's nearly midnight tonight, and I just spent three hours driving back to Providence from Maine, after the end of our vacation, and here I am sitting at my desk writing.

I'm writing this post from my phone. That's the reason I chose Ghost as a content platform: no excuses.

My cousin learned to solve Rubiks cubes recently. While we were hanging out, somebody else picked up the cube started fiddling around with it. They solved one side and were proud of figuring that out, but my cousin pointed out that solving just one

I recently read a post by Steven Pressfield (author of The War of Art) called The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned. The main takeaway? Nobody wants to read your sh*t. So, starting with this post, I'm going to edit all my

A journey of 10,000 steps begins with 9,999 steps.I named my car Success several years ago. That way, I nearly always have the keys to success in my pocket. On a more serious note, we all have goals, individually and shared.

Just a quick post for today – it's getting rather late in the day. Unfortunately, I'm not too sure what to write about still, because it's been a busy day of goal setting and visualization and that all doesn't leave an awful lot of room

There's a wood stove in the cabin we're staying in right now and we've had a couple of fires going a day. I say a couple, because I keep letting the fire we light in the morning die out by not feeding it more

In my last post, I wrote about how standards and habits are important, not just goals. But how do you transmute goals into achievable habits and standards to be met? There are two tools which make up this alchemy of achievement: reverse engineering and

So many things came at me today I don't even know where to start. I jumped in the river this morning for about half a second (though I did go all the way under!) and it was great, despite the 15° F temp. I

Well, my "think week" has officially begun. We got here about an hour and a half ago, and it's been a whirlwind of getting set up and settling in since then. Everything is so much more complicated with a baby involved! Bringing his swing,

I've written before about making small bets, but I want to dive into that a little more today. Many of my business ideas so far have been really big. They've been things that I could easily picture scaling to my ultimate goal of total

I've been writing a lot publicly, which has led to a lot less writing in private. I feel that my thinking has become limited in scope as a result. Writing privately, my thoughts meander. I don't put effort into writing concisely, or spend time

Robert Kiyosaki has a great point in Rich Dad, Poor Dad: "you become what you study." If I spend too much time thinking about money, I'll be left with money as my sole interest. I think it's really important to balance out my study

I'll keep this post short, because I'm still reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and it's late. One more critical realization I've had is the difference between making money and building wealth. Making money usually happens when you work hourly, and you stop getting money

I'm reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad right now. It's one of the most frequently recommended books by successful real estate investors that I've seen, so I thought it'd be worth a shot. Very insightful book. I'm only forty seven pages in right now, but

I read recently in a discussion on IDEs over on Hacker News that rather than using a particular piece of software, one engineer considered the entire Unix system as his IDE. This idea totally blew my mind. Since then I've installed Linux and started

Having a solid sleep schedule has proven to be the most important thing I can possibly do for my productivity. If I'm getting up early, at the same time every day, I get lots of work done. I'll wake up, make my coffee, get

Perhaps my most important learning of 2020 was "make small bets". The idea of making many small bets totally transformed the way I think about business ideas. As Seth pointed out in his blog post from January 1st, 2021: ...consider a portfolio of projects.

It's tempting to think that success must be effortless, because I am constantly exposed to success stories, but rarely hear about the effort that goes into them. This is due to the combination of human nature and social media. We like to talk about

I had a very interesting discussion with my brother earlier today about reason versus intuition – when each can be used when evaluating a business decision, and how useful they are. His position is that reason is very useful, but that it's dangerous to succumb

The only way to get money is to try to get money. But the act of trying to get money can lead me to doing things that I don't enjoy, am not good at, and so can't make money doing because I'm not good

I already wrote about concision recently, but I've been continuing to notice a strong temptation to write longer posts, as if the value I get from writing these posts and the value you get from reading them is directly proportional to word count and

How will I spend them? I took two months off of contracting – January and February. I have enough saved up that this won't be a major burden, and I'm confident that I'll be able to find work when I return, if I don't end