Jon Young

I build tech for SMBs, I lift weights, run outdoors, drink water, etc.
— ask me about drums, ancient linguistics, travel — that’s where my real passion lives.

[Jon Young @jonyoungexp]

I build software for a living. I also read/translate Ancient Greek, lift weights, run far, DJ, spent years based in Hungary, and once stood at the entrance to the underworld in Cumae, amongst other things.

There is depth in one thing, and in everything together.

[Jon Young @jonyoungexp]

Another day on Earth well spent

[Jon Young @jonyoungexp]

4. AI tools don’t make you less of a developer. They make you a developer who ships.
5. You don’t need everything figured out before you start. Just enough to figure out the rest.
I learned all this by building for a paying client

[Jon Young @jonyoungexp]

If you just graduated a dev bootcamp and think you can’t build anything ��real” yet —
I shipped a full production CRM for a real estate brokerage 10 months out.
Role-based auth, row-level security, real client, real data, live in production.
It’s possible. And yes, I used Claude.

[Jon Young @jonyoungexp]

What I wish someone told me the day I graduated bootcamp:
1.Your first app doesn’t have to be original. Build something a real person actually needs.

[Jon Young @jonyoungexp]

2.The gap between tutorial projects and production code is mostly auth, roles, and database security. Learn those three things and you’re 80% there.
3.Your first client won’t come from a job board. They’ll come from a conversation.

[Jon Young @jonyoungexp]

Met up with my old band yesterday after a year. My brain was buzzing the whole time we’re calling out a drummer songs. Muscle memory is weird — your hands know things your conscious mind forgot.

[Jon Young @jonyoungexp]

@ChrisWillx Marcus Aurelius wrote something like, “Everything is smoke” in Meditations. That short sentence packs a punch if you sit with it.

[Jon Young @jonyoungexp]

“To withdraw trust is to withdraw life. To withdraw life prematurely is to abort your mission, something that a samurai never does.” - from The Compassionate Samurai

[ὁ Κέφαλος | AGROS education @AGROS_edu]

ταῦτα μέμνησθε, ὦ φιλόκαλοι. 🤓

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

C. S. Lewis on why we need to read old books

[Jon Young @jonyoungexp]

@MasculineTheory The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

[Tim Stoddart @TimStodz]

If you have a big goal, you're gonna look dumb for a while while you figure it out.

There's no avoiding it.

Make peace with that.

[Francis Nayan @francis_nayan]

Day 1 of a 30 day video challenge

Inspired to do this by @waronweakness and @nickrgrs

Just sharing why I’m doing this challenge and a little intro about myself.

A little nervous. A little stutter. A little splotch on the tee.

All good homies.

It’s a start.

LFG.

[Francis Nayan @francis_nayan]

The most successful freelance copywriters I know aren't "just copywriters"

They're email list managers, offer creators, brand builders, sales specialists, storytellers, and lead gen experts.

Learn new skills to expand your opportunities and become truly irreplaceable.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Do you get tired? Stressed? Sad? Hungry? Frustrated? Unfocused?

Do you ever feel misunderstood?

Great. You’re human. You don’t need medication.

[Jon Young @jonyoungexp]

Questions to ask yourself when writing your headline:

1. Who is my customer?

2. What are the important features of this product?

3. Which of these features do competing products lack?

4. Why will the customer want to buy this product? (i.e. most important benefit?)

[Jon Young @jonyoungexp]

Copywriting Tip:

Selling is placing 100 percent emphasis on how the reader will come out ahead by doing business with you.

There is a creative challenge in writing copy that sells.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

For anyone struggling to get work done, you’d be amazed how much can finish when you set a timer for 45min and turn off your notifications.

[Jon Young @jonyoungexp]

Does anyone know the most efficient way to build an audience on Instagram or here in the twitterverse? Reposts, original content, engaging with popular pages? What else?

#copywriter