Henry MacKenzie

I almost cried now while looking at some of my early posts 🥹 It's been 20 years now since my first startup & 6 years since I started building in public. It always felt like I was still just starting out, but here I am, the oldest man in almost every room of startup founders and tech people. Time flew fast. In the first 3 years of building in public, I had maybe 1k views combined on those posts, all from my friends & family. I thought that I was not talented enough to produce content people like to read. But I kept posting, for many years, despite almost no traction. Things changed in 2023. Four years after posting into the void. Today, I have 100 million views yearly. I don't really know what the lesson is here tbh. Maybe I learned some things along the way, and maybe I got enough experience and stories to share, so my content started to become interesting and gained traction, most likely. But one thing is for sure: I never bothered with the results. I love the process and never really had any doubts if I should keep going. This is why, if I were starting out from zero again, I'd 100% do the same thing: I'd start building my business in public from day one.

One reason why entrepreneurship is hard is because you fear that what you’re working on today won’t pay dividends in 5 years. And that it’ll all be a waste of time. And so, you switch, from thing to thing, to make yourself feel that you’re addressing that fear. NOT TRUE. The constant switching w/ kill you. The focus is the hard part. And will increase the likelihood of the desirable outcome. The price of the payout (future profits, selling company) is the focus!!!

Something about this imagery is deeply unsettling, but it's actually really interesting. Quest 2s have entered select California prisons for inmates sent to solitary confinement. Crazy part is that after VR "programming", inmate infractions fell 96%.