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Rodrigo Fernandes's avatar

Love the straight talk here. Action over consumption and doubling down on expertise hit home. It’s a tough road, but this feels like the kind of framework that actually works if you’re serious.

Maurice Klimek's avatar

I love the formatting of this e-mail!

And the advice, of course ;-)

Gunnar Ehn's avatar

”Quien mucho abarca poco aprieta” - old Spanish proverb.

Brandon's avatar

Spot on John. Less talk, more do. Less scattered do, more focused do. The less you focus on, the more impactful your ‘do’ will be.

Todd Gagne's avatar

Good post John. Startup are not an easy journey but you will grow more than you ever thought. Good article.

LaLa ✿Indie Maker✿'s avatar

Love the Twitter threadesk form of your newsletter.

#6... ouch That tough love hurts deep!

Ken's avatar

Refreshingly realistic. I'm hoping to find success with some version of the what works approaches.

Duy /zuey/'s avatar

I love your idea to put each point into a code block, very clever!

John Rush's avatar

Yeah, did it by accident first and then liked the way it looks and that sections don’t blend into each other

Xinran Ma's avatar

Favorite read of the week. John, your writings are always concise, no-fluff, and powerful.