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On top of the world? This too shall pass. In your darkest hour? This too shall pass. True leaders aren’t swayed by peaks or crushed by valleys, they build for the long game. Play the Infinite Game.

Priority lists are just procrastination in disguise. If you’re juggling a “priority list,” you have zero focus. True priority is the one thing you’re willing to say no to everything else for. Why most “priority lists” fail: - Diluted attention | Spreading effort across five “must-dos” means none get the depth they deserve. - False urgency | Everything feels urgent, so nothing actually moves the needle. - Decision fatigue | Choosing what to execute next becomes its own roadblock. A better approach: ​- Identify your North-Star initiative, the single outcome that delivers the highest leverage for your business (e.g., 20% ARR growth, 30% faster release cadence). ​- Block dedicated time each week to advance it, no meetings, no multitasking. ​ - Defer or delegate everything else until that one thing is moving decisively. The power of saying “no” isn’t negative, it’s the only way to say “yes” to real progress. It will feel slow on the micro but will be the only factor for real growth on the macro.

How effective are you as a leader? Ask yourself: 1. Do you run meetings with purpose? Clear agenda. Defined outcomes. Actionable next steps. 2. Do you give consistent feedback? Weekly 1:1s. Honest conversations. Focused on growth. 3. Do you manage with intention? Clear expectations. Measurable goals. Regular check-ins. Leadership isn't a performance. It's a system. And systems work best when built on clarity and accountability. Manage with care. Lead with intention. Drive with outcomes.

Your biggest cost isn’t payroll, it’s indecision. If you need miracles, you need a mirror. Startups die when founders outsource accountability to luck.

@matt_gray_ Everything unique about you is your leverage, you've to cultivate it into your edge. And if you can do that publicly, even better.

your weirdness is your competitive edge. but here's what most founders miss: you have to push that weirdness one step further each week week 1: share your obsession with systems week 2: show your actual systems in action week 3: let people behind the scenes of building them living at the edge of your comfort zone becomes your unfair advantage.

Velocity is Not the end Goal. Learning Is. Most product teams don’t fail because they can’t build, but they fail because they stop learning after they ship. We see it all the time: Teams racing to meet roadmap milestones. Shipping feature after feature. Hoping for the best. Here’s why: A roadmap isn’t a strategy. It’s a set of hypotheses. And if you’re not validating those hypotheses week over week, you’re just building at random. This is why inside the Strategic Growth Agency, we coach teams to operate like scientists, not feature factories: • Every sprint closes a loop. • Every launch drives a new insight. • Every assumption gets pressure-tested against reality. The teams that win are the ones that learn faster than they ship. You don’t scale by adding features. You scale by shortening the distance between decisions and real data.

@IAmAaronWill People give too much cache to pure volume these days. There are so many tools that can automate volume for you, not enough to produce quality. Focus on things others cant easily replicate.

Everyone is trying to do the least amount of work and get the maximum results. Don't: >> Sell to everyone >> Mass send emails >> Send copy and pasted DMs Do: >> Personalise outreach >> Do your market research >> Work with qualified leads Quality outreach works better.

@ItsAkhilMishra Absolutely!

@ScaleWithSGA Always focus on the actions of people

Early-stage leadership rule: Your team will copy your behavior, not your words. If you’re unclear, slow, or distracted, so are they. Culture is caught, not taught.

@paolo_scales People make bad purchase decisions based on emotional triggers and then blame the entire genre of products. I totally, agree if you know what you need to learn and you can decipher the best place to learn that, course can be life changing.

it's crazy to me that 99% of people who hate on courses have never bought one in their life and if they did buy one, i can guarantee they didn't take any action on the info there's not as many shitty courses as you think i genuinely don't regret any course i've ever bought

@pmitu Sometimes you've to leave the dashboards at work and let a little free will take over.

Stop optimizing your every breath. Start living.

@ItsKieranDrew Yeah, pain and discomfort are the best indicators. If there is pain, you need to pay attention to it. It's more than likely trying to tell you something.

If you want to see your blindspots, see what offends you. It’s easier to defend our beliefs than admit we might be wrong.

You're spot on. Niche weird experts thrive on X, think of the menswear guy and the Phd smell lady. Both have become such legends. But the fact is that you can't fake such expertise. You're either an original thinker or you're not. You can't invent unexpected takes that land out of no experience. It has to come naturally.

If you want to get rich on X, it isn't going to be through creator revenue or meme coins. Instead, think about one subject matter that you know more about than anyone else in the world. It can be anything: plumbing, menswear, Indian food, furniture, social apps, whatever. Post one unexpected insight you picked from your experience in that area. Keep it under 5 sentences. Do this every day for 6 months. If you stick to it, we will promote your account to others. By the end, you will be recognized as the world's leading expert in that subject area and you can charge whatever you want for endorsements, your time, or whatever. And no one will be able to take that way from you.

"we'll get this done in a week" -> It took them 7 months Honestly, the best transition ever. I cannot imagine if they'd stalled for several months, thinking they'll get it done in a week, only to realise later that it'll actually take them a year. It would be such a waste of time. Always assume it'll take you longer than you think, and then 2x it and then start immediately. Your timeline is your biggest assumption.

this is the story of how ben built wombo ai, got 250M app downloads, and NVIDIA invested in him (the most unbelievable app story 99.9% of people don't know) summer 2020, he's on a roof in toronto smoking a joint with his roommate. they're watching these weird AI memes go viral - people putting their faces on singing videos using some open source model called "first order motion." to make these memes, you needed to use a google colab notebook. ben's exact words: "my grandma could never use this sh*t." meanwhile, an app called reface is sitting at #1 on the app store. hundreds of millions of downloads. doing face swaps into music videos. ben knew exactly how they built it. so he's high on this roof and has this moment: "why doesn't someone just make an app where anyone can do this?" his roommate looks at him. "dude, we're going to be billionaires. we'll get this done in a week." it took them seven months. march 2021, they launch wombo. 4 screens total: take selfie, pick song, wait, boom - you're lip syncing to baka mitai. so simple a five-year-old could use it. 50 million downloads in the first month. then reality hit. server bill: $1 million. in one month. investors pulled out. they had to fire everyone and enter what ben calls "cockroach mode" - 18 months of barely surviving. only 2% of their users ever paid them. the other 98%? they just made content and shared it everywhere, driving more downloads. at peak, that 2% was generating $500k monthly. ben's still building. still studying what goes viral. still betting that the biggest opportunities come from taking complex AI and making it stupid simple. the future belongs to the builders who can spot the disconnect between what's possible and what's accessible. this episode shows you how. i'm rooting for you

@KevinSzabo14 Visibility is such an asset when you're building anything. Having direct access to your ICP is a game-changer. You can sell, you can get feedback, you can bounce off ideas - things just move so much faster this way, and you're guaranteed you're moving in the right direction.

There are around 500k news users joining X daily! If you’re not building on X! What the hell are you Doing? Start building that brand. Start Learning a high income skill. Start just by starting (seriously) And leverage what is possibly the best a man has ever created. If you miss out? Don’t come crying to me. Let me help you!

“We need x and y features” the CEO insisted, yet no direct demand from users. The startup was hemorrhaging cash on unasked-for roadmap items. So we ran data-driven customer interviews, and a quantitative analytics deep dive, and in 60 days: • Cut unnecessary features • Focused on 3 solving real pain • ↑45% pricing • ↓35% burn • ↑70% revenue SaaS success isn’t building more, it’s building what matters. Stop assuming. Start asking.

The best leaders don’t bark orders. They build clarity. They kill chaos. They make decisions easier for everyone around them. That’s real influence.

@nikitabier Yeah Twitter is best when you've a punchy hook and a little context. And if you manage to be funny, even better.

The best content on X is neither short form nor long form. It’s medium form: 1-2 paragraphs. It’s just short enough to hook someone and explain something interesting. But it’s not too long that people leave before reacting to it. Basically, this exact post.

@Codie_Sanchez There's never been fewer barriers to acquiring money today. But you also have more opportunities to get distracted. If you can find a way to live your purpose and stay focused, you'll eventually make it.

In this decade for the first time ever... anyone who can think clearly, take action, and communicate their ideas will get rich.

@signulll Sometimes you just have to wait it out. You've done your research, you're data is telling you you're on the right track, everything in your control is set for forward-moment - it'll happen. It might get a bit worse before it happens. But it'll happen.

noticed a pretty sizable regression in what we’re doing & realized how much people over romanticize progress like it’s just straight linear. in actuality it’s lumpy as hell. so much time is spent on backtracking dead ends. the ability to treat regression as signal rather than catastrophe is what separates good builders from mediocre ones.