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[Jace💭 @jtjbaugh]

Had an hour to burn on the road between sales calls so I spent the time calling their number back and prank calling the reps. Each time they hung up. After about the 6th person they somehow BLOCKED ME 😂

I still call back once a day hoping they unblock me again. Haven’t had a call since then

[Jace💭 @jtjbaugh]

Indie hacker community getting pummeled. But it’s coming to enterprise/niche B2B SaaS too. Build in stealth to production level then blitzkrieg the market

I think we’ll see a rise in hardware build in public. Maybe it’s just my feed but I’ve been seeing a handful of defense hardware startups posting new stuff

[John Collison @collision]

As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I can’t stress enough how little an idea matters compared to the agency of the people executing the idea.

I have had the privilege of knowing and sometimes even working with some of the most successful people (by various metrics).

The difference between mediocre and excellent work and outcomes is predominantly one of agency.

In practice this means: they dont wait for things to happen to them they go out and make things happen for them.

They don’t wait for someone else to do something, for someone to teach them, for someone to give them the path, etc. They just go out and find a way to do it.

I think the single biggest superpower these people have is the realization/belief that the world around them is completely mutable. Most everything that happens is because a person made it happen.

I used to tell people to look around the room you’re sitting in. Look at everything. Every noun. It almost all exists because a person willed it into existence. Nothing is stopping you from doing the same.

I see people online all the time dismissing someone else’s success because “I had that idea first” or whatever. I mean… yeah? If so then the difference is… you. So a bit of a self own whenever I hear that.

Number one tip: act with agency.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

You can cold email nearly anyone, but nearly everyone overlooks how powerful it can be.

Sending one email each week that feels like a stretch can change your life. Will you get turned down? Sure, most of the time. But you only need one to pay off for something amazing to happen.

Take your time, write a thoughtful message, and muster the courage to press Send.

[Jace💭 @jtjbaugh]

@GRITCULT The West has lived in like 150 years of modern comfort and we forget each of us are descendants of absolute savages capable of violence beyond our comprehension for survival and conquest.

[Jace💭 @jtjbaugh]

@JamesonCamp Somebody posted a graphic of all Claude models by wordiness. Opus 5 out here writing novels. Need a summary of its summary most times

[Jace💭 @jtjbaugh]

@JamesonCamp Ain’t no loyalty in this AI game 😂 Opus 5 is trash. Just downgraded my Max to Pro. Coding 100% in Codex now. Just picked up Cursor Ultra for Grok Bots and will test Cursor for some coding as well. Everything lives in Linear & GitHub so transition between models is smooth

[New Mentalities @NewMentalities]

The repetition you're avoiding is the only cure for the repetition you're in.

[Jace💭 @jtjbaugh]

I think there are gonna be great opportunities in niche SMB markets that have been largely ignored.

Small, fast building teams will be perfect to serve these markets.

Will probably see a ton of these niche SaaS get bought up by the legacy software behemoths in the next couple years. Great time to build.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Business is often seen as the art of acquisition. Acquiring talent, customers, revenue, profits, mindshare, marketshare. Building and growing requires consumption, addition, parlaying some of this into a lot of that.

But the smartest businesses, the ones that tend to stick around for the long haul, know that existence is also about avoidance.

Avoiding careening variable costs, avoiding getting involved with things that aren’t core to your business, avoiding spending time on things that don’t matter, avoiding bad investments, avoiding people who don’t help you prosper, and even avoiding customers who aren’t the right fit.

However, there’s something even more fundamental to avoid. It would be easy to call it “complexity” but that’s not quite it. Complexity can be necessary, and intricacy can be quite beautiful. Just stare into a Moorish mosaic and you’ll know it.

So complexity isn’t the issue.

Overkill is the issue.

Overkill is the dust that settles on the stuff that took a lot of energy to build or buy, but turned out not to be necessary. The over-engineered, over-designed, over-hired, over-litigated, the over-spent, over-promised, over-deliberated.

Overkill is the policy that was written but never enacted. The technology that was purchased that was never used. The seven steps that could be handled in two. The nine people in a meeting made for three. The business equivalent of the 8 bedroom house for a family of four. The cooks when you don’t even have a kitchen.

Overkill is using five different products to run a single project. Overkill is an seven-stage interview process that exhausts everyone involved. Overkill is acting like a company 100x your size. Overkill is buying what they bought but that you don’t need. Overkill is paying thousands for something worth hundreds. Overkill is hoping that losing more will turn into a win.

Every day is an opportunity to find just right. To toss that policy that’s in the way. To slim down the stack. To sharpen things up. To eliminate the work that doesn’t need to be done. To polish the scratched glass so you can see through again.

Amass what you need, but ignore even more. Kill overkill.

[DR22 Ω 🪬🎭 @DejaRu22]

Conduct an experiment:

Pretend.

Pretend that you’re capable of more. Pretend that you’re destined for greatness. Pretend that everything you do will work out perfectly for you, with or without your conscious effort applied. Pretend that every single thing in the universe is coordinating together for your maximal growth and enjoyment.

Just pretend.

[Jace💭 @jtjbaugh]

I’ve noticed the biggest struggle with first generation wealth kids in my circle. Parent(s) grind out the mud and get wealthy

They spoil their kids giving them a childhood of intense security the parents never had

The kids never develop the resilience, persistance, or revenue generating skills to earn the same quality of life on their own so they get propped up into adulthood by parents who don’t know when to turn the faucet off

[Digi @digiii]

This line from Atomic Habits isn't ready to leave my head:

"It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire.
To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment."

[GRITCULT @GRITCULT]

You gotta be doing more. AND yapping more.

The future belongs to the yappers.

Yap yap yap. It will change your life for the better.

[Jace💭 @jtjbaugh]

@roguewealth Crazy that starving your body of nutrient-dense proteins can lead to downstream negative effects. Who could have seen that coming?

I see a lack of blood testing for iron, ferritin and zinc levels in this study.

[the sales guy @revenumaxxing]

@danielfazio said something that’s always stuck with me:

how easy things actually are, and how much we get in our own way just to avoid doing the simple shit that changes everything.

redoing your logo for the 4th time instead of just sending 1,000 cold emails. tweaking your bio instead of picking up the phone. “researching the best crm”

none of that is actual work. it’s avoidance.

the faster you can cut the bullshit, the faster you actually see a result.

it was never complicated. people just keep making it complicated so they don’t have to feel the discomfort of doing the simple thing.

[Jace💭 @jtjbaugh]

Peter Thief’s Zero to One had a great take on building radically new products. To build a biz in a Blue Ocean, the value needs to be 10x that of the closest alternative.

Thats only part of the equation. Because it’s so new education and distribution are key to getting traction.

[Chris Raroque @raroque]

maturing is realizing

“my app has no competitors!”

is actually a red flag 🥲🥲🥲

[Jace💭 @jtjbaugh]

@raroque Yes! Was a lesson we learned in business school. Assume every idea has been done. If it was profitable, someone would be doing it. If you can’t find competition, proceed with caution

[sarah guo @saranormous]

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