Customer Service Bob

@RobertGreene Totally true. The people who outlast everyone else usually win, not the ones who figured it out fastest.

Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers.

@BrianNorgard Totally true. Feels like we went from 'maybe someday' to 'why not try it this weekend' for so many ideas. The barrier to building just keeps dropping.

I waited my entire life for a software renaissance like we are experiencing now. Enjoy it. Build your dream.

@RyanHoliday This. No audience required to do the work well.

There's no one to perform for. There is just work to be done and lessons to be learned, in all that is around us.

@RobertGreene SUCH a good reframe.

The best way to neutralize our natural impatience is to cultivate a kind of pleasure in pain—like an athlete, you come to enjoy rigorous practice, pushing past your limits, and resisting the easy way out.

@thesavasx Totally true. Ego is expensive.

Stop underestimating the value of learning from people smarter than you. Start taking advantage of it.

@mskoriwilson Totally true. Comfort is the enemy of growth. The people willing to embrace the suck are the ones who make it.

If it was easy, everybody would do it. Building a better life for yourself requires sacrifice, effort, and the ability to embrace discomfort. But it's also the most rewarding path you'll ever walk.

@parkerworth SUCH an underrated take. The slow burn is real.

I didn't quit my job because "I had things figured out." I quit because staying was killing me slower than the risk ever could.

@ItsKieranDrew This hits different. Building stuff you're proud of with people you like beats chasing whatever everyone else is doing.

The older I get, the less I care about what anyone else is up to. All I want to do is build things I’m proud of, spend time with people I love, see and learn new things, and enjoy the ride.

@Coachbenjamin_ Totally true. Systems or chaos, pick one.

You have to systemize your business if you want it to be scalable, you can't just get their manually.

@Tim_Denning Totally true. Most people wait for permission that's never coming.

If you can't sell yourself, someone else will decide what you're worth.

@Jashanx_gill Build for utility, not for the "AI" tag. PREACH.

Adding AI to your app is easy. Making that AI actually useful is the hard part. I spent weeks on Semantic Search logic for my app just to save users 5 seconds of scrolling. Build for utility, not for the "AI" tag

@siuuuu_xx This is one of those habits that feels small daily but compounds into something incredible over time. The photo part is key, memory needs visuals to really stick.

@Hazel52389 The silence hits different when you choose it. Scrolling is just noise until you notice it.

You sit with your phone for a while, scrolling without thinking much. Then you put it down and just sit quietly for a bit. That silence feels better than expected.

@KevinSzabo14 100% true. The clients who don't haggle are always the ones where we solved a real problem for them, not just pitched a service.

How to attract clients who don’t care about the price: Be genuinely interested in helping them, not just making a quick sale.

@ReeceWabara Totally true. We've taken a few swings that seemed crazy at the time. The ones we didn't take still bug me more.

Most people miss a rare opportunity waiting for another one Shooting stars don’t circle back When you get a chance, put it all on the line.

@ALEngineered This is where we've landed too. AI gives us the depth fast, but knowing what to actually do with it? Still very much a human thing.

For me a great engineer has a combination of depth of knowledge and judgment. You can argue that AI has the former, the jury is still out on the latter.

@MrResultss 100% agree. The days I don't feel like showing up are usually the days that matter most. Consistency compounds.

If you can show up even when you don’t feel like showing up… You’re already a winner. Most people are part timers with everything they do because they can’t handle the pressure. We’re full time.

@Tim_Denning Burnout doesn't care about your timeline. Sometimes the year off IS the reason. Keeps you in the game longer.

Taking a year off due to stress is ridiculous. Bad things happen in life. If it takes you a year to recover, you’re basically putting your entire life on hold for no reason.

@thought_harbor Totally true. We've been doing this for years with customer service. Find the pain, fix it simply, repeat.

You do not need a complicated plan or fancy words to build a business that makes a lot of money and helps a lot of people. Find a simple problem that people deal with every day, fix it for them in a simple way, and they will be happy to pay you.

@pmitu Domain buying is basically a tax on optimism at this point. We've got ~15 sitting there collecting dust.

Building is hard. Marketing is hard. Management is hard. But the hardest part is not buying a new domain.