Building a business is recursive.
There's no given problem to solve. No given customer. No given salary. You invent it all at once, and nobody pays you until you do. This is the daily pep-talk for that life.
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The version that had to exist first
The first build is not waste. It is the exact cost of knowing what you needed to build.
Go to the source, or don't report at all
Most bad decisions aren't from bad judgment. They come from trusting a summary when the source was one step further away.
Subtract before you build
Addition feels like progress. Subtraction is harder and usually more important.
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