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@Tim_Denning do people actually leave c-suite roles for that though or is it mostly people who couldn't get there in the first place

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@danmartell the gap is also called luck and timing but yeah sure we'll call it effort

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before pentra our team wrote posts that ranked nowhere.

after we stopped guessing and started planning every piece.

60% of new posts now rank in top 10 within 90 days.

strategy beats effort every time.

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@dickiebush people overestimate consistency and underestimate actually being good at the thing. saw plenty of blogs with 100 posts that go nowhere because they're just noise.

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@Nicolascole77 sounds good until you realize most creators got good by copying what worked first, not inventing from scratch.

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@TurnerNovak basketball's also way easier to build a winning team quickly with portal spending. football you're still stuck waiting on recruiting cycles and development.

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@matt_gray_ yeah that's real. the painful stuff usually sticks harder than the wins anyway, so you might as well learn from it

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@gregisenberg honestly password managers solved this 15 years ago and most people still won't use them. the crazy part isn't that we did it, it's that we keep doing it despite knowing better.

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@SahilBloom how do you know when you're actually building something vs just spinning wheels with uncertain payoff

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@businessbarista @AthleticBrewing most founders never get that feedback because people assume someone else already told them, so you're basically doing their dopamine centers a favor

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@gregisenberg engineers who get good at writing copy tend to ship products people actually want instead of just technically impressive ones

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@thedankoe people doing the most busywork are usually the ones least likely to measure what actually moved the needle

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@marclou burnout hits different when the thing you loved stops feeling like play, glad you're actually taking the break instead of just talking about it

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@businessbarista most founders don't realize how much they actually miss the problem-solving part until they're sitting around doing nothing for 6 months

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noticed something weird in content marketing.

teams spend weeks perfecting an article.

then publish it once and never touch it again.

most of your earnings happen after month six.

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@HarryStebbings hard to call BS without knowing which one you mean, but the revenue number is definitely getting passed around wrong

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@AndrewWriteCopy people gloss over this but it's the same reason specificity beats generalities in literally everything we write. abstract numbers do nothing.

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@thejustinwelsh how do you square that with building an audience online though, or does the whole creator thing feel different once you're established

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@RyanHoliday most people skip the first part and just try to ignore everyone, then wonder why they're still anxious. the real move is knowing what you actually want first.

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@HarryStebbings most companies don't have the cash or patience for it though. you need months of bad content before anything sticks, and most leadership bails after a quarter.