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Eddy Quan

@waronweakness

Selling online since 2019 | Marketing, emails, freedom | This is my scrapbook of ideas

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My name is Eddy Quan. Like many people, I had a normal office job working 40-60 hours per week in a fluorescent lit cubicle. I sat on a bus for 90 minutes every morning in peak hour traffic so I could sit in a cubicle to look at Excel spreadsheets for 8 hours a day. I then…

waronweakness's tweet image. My name is Eddy Quan.

Like many people, I had a normal office job working 40-60 hours per week in a fluorescent lit cubicle.

I sat on a bus for 90 minutes every morning in peak hour traffic  so I could sit in a cubicle to look at Excel spreadsheets for 8 hours a day. I  then…
waronweakness's tweet image. My name is Eddy Quan.

Like many people, I had a normal office job working 40-60 hours per week in a fluorescent lit cubicle.

I sat on a bus for 90 minutes every morning in peak hour traffic  so I could sit in a cubicle to look at Excel spreadsheets for 8 hours a day. I  then…

In one word, what do you use X for?


Train yourself to say "I'll figure it out" for every single problem you face, even if it seems impossible to solve.


My life changed when I asked myself: "When are you going to get serious?"


The older I get, the more I realise a lack of consistency hurts you more than a lack of intelligence.


Instead of listening to another repetitive podcast, have you considered listening to your own thoughts and ideas?


Isaac Asimov wrote something like 500 books in his life time. He wrote fiction, non-fiction, essays and even some text books. When asked about his routine he said "I wake up at five in the morning. I work as much as I can. I do this everyday, including holidays and even when…


Hollywood doesn't make aspirational movies anymore. Movies like Back to the Future were powerful because they made you think big.

waronweakness's tweet image. Hollywood doesn't make aspirational movies anymore. 

Movies like Back to the Future were powerful because they made you think big.

I have a rule: No social media after 6pm. App blocker kicks and I'm free to do whatever I want except scroll.


Them: "So what do you do for work?" Me: "Oh you know. Bit o' this, bit o' that."

waronweakness's tweet image. Them: "So what do you do for work?"
Me: "Oh you know. Bit o' this, bit o' that."

Relax. It's all going to work out.


Samuel L Jackson's pronunciation of m*therfucker is so valuable they made an entire movie as a set up for him to deliver one line of dialogue involving snakes and a plane.

waronweakness's tweet image. Samuel L Jackson's pronunciation of m*therfucker is so valuable they made an entire movie as a set up for him to deliver one line of dialogue involving snakes and a plane.

My favourite LA movies: > Chinatown > Short Cuts > Once Upon a Time in Hollywood > Collateral > Heat > Boyz n the Hood > L.A Confidential > Jackie Brown > Boogie Nights > Mulholland Drive > Swingers > Friday > To Live and Die in LA


SUBSTACK WRITERS ONLY: What do you like about writing on Substack?


We're either all going to be zonked out consumers like in the movie Wall-E (already 90% there) or return to a hybrid digital/material world where we build real life connections with people, create art and freely express ourselves without thinking about how it will be perceived by…

waronweakness's tweet image. We're either all going to be zonked out consumers like in the movie Wall-E (already 90% there) or return to a hybrid digital/material world where we build real life connections with people, create art and freely express ourselves without thinking about how it will be perceived by…

Make movies beautiful again

waronweakness's tweet image. Make movies beautiful again

I love to eat but I find the whole online obsession with food a bit odd. It's almost as if we're living in a food dominant cultural zeitgeist.


The best way to learn a new skill is to imitate (not plagiarise) good work and practice until it becomes second nature. Works for pretty much any skill. Tom Cruise taught me this.


Never leaving this platform

waronweakness's tweet image. Never leaving this platform

Writing tip: Read "The Elements of Style" by William Stunk and E.B White It's only 87 pages long and it will do more for your writing than most $500 writing courses out there.


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