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Growing my business!

[Bella @ecomdiaries]

Relatable things founders have done to make you feel better about yourself:

1. Steve Jobs was very emotional and used to cry frequently.

[Bella @ecomdiaries]

@mathildeanita A JMM collab would be crazy

[Nick Huber @sweatystartup]

https://t.co/40qSfnODgv

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

The reason so many very successful founder have a ‘touch of the tism’ is because what makes you more successful as a child makes you less successful as an adult.

To win as a child you need to follow rules and get along with everyone to fit in.

To win as an adult you need to write your own rules, get along with few people, and differentiate.

So if you’re split between two paths: conventional wisdom and your own path - pick your own.

You’ll either be very right or very wrong.

But no one wins big following the herd.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

The right partner helps you become the best version of yourself.

The wrong partner helps you become the worst version of yourself. (In a hurry)

[Bella @ecomdiaries]

@paul_conyngham Super cool. Respect your work to do all this as a self-trained scientist

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

If you obsess over acquiring customers, you'll lose them to competitors who obsess over keeping them. If you obsess over keeping customers, you'll never need to obsess over acquiring them.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Your close rates have more to do with the quality of your reputation than the quality of your salespeople.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Successful people do important things first, urgent things second.
Average people do urgent things first and important things only when circumstances for them to.
Losers avoid both.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

The only scheduling that has worked for me:
Schedule in the long term important stuff and assume urgent matters will fill in the cracks. And 9 times out of 10 urgent (unimportant) matters resolve themselves by ignoring them long enough to accomplish the important ones.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

The people who accomplish their New Year’s resolutions are the people who after failing the first time, don’t wait until next year to try again.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn’t be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting. Never tell yourself “I’ll just get it done this weekend.” Review Parkinson’s Law in The 4-Hour Workweek and force yourself to cram within tight hours so your per-hour productivity doesn’t fall through the floor. Focus, get the critical few done, and get out. E-mailing all weekend is no way to spend the little time you have on this planet.

[Naval @naval]

Vibe Coding Is the New Product Management

“There’s been a shift—a marked pronouncement in the last year and especially in the last few months—most pronounced by Claude Code, which is a specific model that has a coding engine in it, which is so good that I think now you have vibe coders, which are people who didn’t really code much or hadn’t coded in a long time, who are using essentially English as a programming language—as an input into this code bot—which can do end-to-end coding.

Instead of just helping you debug things in the middle, you can describe an application that you want. You can have it lay out a plan, you can have it interview you for the plan. You can give it feedback along the way, and then it’ll chunk it up and will build all the scaffolding.

It’ll download all the libraries and all the connectors and all the hooks, and it’ll start building your app and building test harnesses and testing it. And you can keep giving it feedback and debugging it by voice, saying, “This doesn’t work. That works. Change this. Change that,” and have it build you an entire working application without your having written a single line of code.

For a large group of people who either don’t code anymore or never did, this is mind-blowing.

This is taking them from idea space, and opinion space, and from taste directly into product. So that’s what I mean—product management has taken over coding. Vibe coding is the new product management.

Instead of trying to manage a product or a bunch of engineers by telling them what to do, you’re now telling a computer what to do. And the computer is tireless. The computer is egoless, and it’ll just keep working. It’ll take feedback without getting offended.

You can spin up multiple instances. It’ll work 24/7 and you can have it produce working output.

What does that mean? Just like now anybody can make a video or anyone can make a podcast, anyone can now make an application. So we should expect to see a tsunami of applications. Not that we don’t have one already in the App Store, but it doesn’t even begin to compare to what we’re going to see.

However, when you start drowning in these applications, does that necessarily mean that these are all going to get used or they’re competitive? No. I think it’s going to break into two kinds of things.

First, the best application for a given use case still tends to win the entire category. When you have such a multiplicity of content, whether in videos or audio or music or applications, there’s no demand for average.
Nobody wants the average thing. People want the best thing that does the job. So first of all, you just have more shots on goal. So there will be more of the best. There will be a lot more niches getting filled.

You might have wanted an application for a very specific thing, like tracking lunar phases in a certain context, or a certain kind of personality test, or a very specific kind of video game that made you nostalgic for something. Before, the market just wasn’t large enough to justify the cost of an engineer coding away for a year or two. But now the best vibe coding app might be enough to scratch that itch or fill that slot. So a lot more niches will get filled, and as that happens, the tide will rise.

The best applications—those engineers themselves are going to be much more leveraged. They’ll be able to add more features, fix more bugs, smooth out more of the edges. So the best applications will continue to get better. A lot more niches will get filled.

And even individual niches—such as you want an app that’s just for your own very specific health tracking needs, or for your own very specific architectural layout or design—that app that could have never existed will now exist.”

[Dickie Bush 🚢 @dickiebush]

Let me get this straight....

- You have access to basically all of the world's intelligence at your fingertips

- You can run a business from your phone and computer anywhere in the world

- You can reach anyone in the world with the words you type on a screen

- You can watch the sunrise and sunset every day and it never gets old

- You can play 2016 EDM sets in the background while you work

- You can fly on airplane to an entirely different country in a couple hours

- You can find every type of healthy food within a few minutes of your house

- You can wake up and slowly chip away toward your ideal body by lifting weights at the gym

Ignore the doomers - there has never been a better time in human history to be ALIVE

Slam an espresso and get to work

Let's have an elite day

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

The more big things you work on, the more you realize:
“80% done” is only a third of the way there.
“90% done” is actually halfway there.
Masterpieces are made in the details.
Good shit takes time.

[Bella @ecomdiaries]

@AlexHormozi Just reading those sentence structures feels horrible these days

[Ben Meer @SystemSunday]

An idea I’m implementing in my life:

The 1-6-4 Method.

Popularized by entrepreneur and author Jesse Itzler, it’s a foolproof way to make sure you always have fun planned throughout the year.

1. Plan one big “year-making” event

This is inspired by the Japanese concept of Misogi (a challenging annual endeavor).

Pick one massive defining challenge or event for the year that pushes you to grow past your limits:

• A long endurance event (like a marathon)
• A big personal project (like finally starting that side business)
• Something transformative (like a multi-day solo backpacking trip)

This’ll act as the anchor for your year.

2. Schedule 6 mini-adventures for every other month

Lock in one small, exciting experience every other month (6 per year):

• Going camping at a national park
• Traveling on vacation to a place you’ve never been
• Attending a music festival where your favorite artist is performing
• Hosting a group of friends for a dinner party and game night
• Explore a new part of your city that you’ve always wanted to visit

3. Implement a winning habit every quarter

Add one positive, compounding habit every 3 months (4 per year).

It could be drinking more water, walking 10k steps per day, meditating, being on time, or any small routine that improves your life.

These are your building blocks for long-term growth.

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We’ve become bad at leisure.

The digital world isn’t bringing as much joy to our lives.

Having alternative choices (using the 1-6-4 Method) to look forward to throughout the year makes life so much more enjoyable.

And remember:

Put these on your calendar so they actually happen rather than staying as ideas.

Cheers to more joy this year and beyond. 🥂

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[Bella @ecomdiaries]

@BowTied_Mystic The intention behind something is important, I agree, but whether you do something to impress people or not doesn't change whether or not a game is finite. Otherwise chess, a finite game, would be defined as such by people playing rounds at least in part to impress others.

[Bella @ecomdiaries]

@BowTied_Mystic Business is an infinite game, and Hormozi is playing it. His problem is that the game of business does not give him meaning, not that it's finite.

[Bella @ecomdiaries]

@BowTied_Mystic In your definition of finite and infinite games, you said an infinite game is something with unknown rules, unknown players, and no scorecard. Things like marriage, fitness, and work are not finite games: the point is not to get fit, it's to stay fit as long as possible