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Good reminder I regularly read when entering a new industry: - working harder inside a broken system is the worst response to that system. - system is never truly broken. It's just producing exactly the outcomes its own incentive structures were designed to produce, whether intentional or not. Game theory explains why it's this way if you're interested.

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Maybe you already think that starting a business basically means - building an audience, - growing a following, - launching a course, - monetizing content, - selling affiliate products, or - becoming a personal brand. and it is the only way 😱 but luckily it's not! There are tremendous businesses being built based on human IRL referrals, personal networks, and real life reputation (not the same as online reputation). So don't despair - there's another way 😉

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The Lens: I try to use for everything — expertise without distribution is a hobby with extra steps. That applies to a personal brand, SaaS project, router company, a Web3 protocol, a consulting business, a body, or a five-year-old's education. Am I right? 😇

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The goal isn't to sell (tools, subscriptions, gadgets) The goal is to SOLVE PROBLEMs for your clients/users.

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Your business - project - or you need to transform during running all daily operations. That's why every advice seems easy - because it never accounted for that.

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It's worth thinking about each layer - even if you accidentally see AI evolution differently than USV - because that's where the most opportunities lie for us = in individual layers, not in hyperscalers also notice - how many areas are best solved on blockchain rails

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We stay young — as long as we keep trying to figure things out and learn new stuff 🤓 Anyone disagrees?

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Point of fiction movies and books is simple allow us to dream and think 💭 Right? 🤓

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Very true ... more in the upcoming BuildBetter essay (are you already a subscriber?) 🤔

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Just curious - do we have a FC community of old-timers or renegades on X? I would join if I knew it existed 😇 hinting at those active casters everywhere 😉

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Did we lose all our qDAU? At peak PICKEM had 100+ weekly players and now we’re struggling to break 10. Native app is just waiting on Apple approval. Once live we’ll make another growth push to see if there’s still a path to scale or if it’s time to sunset the experiment. Every new user gets an embedded wallet at signup to remove onboarding friction.

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Sounds like a good advice to me — for working with AIs inside businesses👇

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From my perspective - it is ok to have AI agents do work on your behalf as long as you approve, understand, and take responsibility for their work. It is not ok - IMHO - to have agents do work where you don't understand potential outcomes or can't accept responsibility for it. Anyone disagree?

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It's always easier, faster, and less scary to do the tactical thing rather than the strategically important and relevant thing. 😳 That's why most of the advice and most of the work relate to and happen in the tactical realm. That's also why most of the projects fail, most of the founders are disappointed, and most of the customers feel rugged. Think about strategy and do the strategic work! 🚨

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