10x paralysis-by-analysis, job board insights, business ideas from podcasts, permission to change

10x

from 10x is easier than 2x by Benjamin Hardy

• I’ve been re-reading 10x is easier than 2x by Benjamin Hardy and it remains one of my favourite business books (Benjamin’s new book is awesome too and covers a lot of the same ideas)

• paralysis-by-analysis is one of the biggest enemies of any founder and aiming for 10x is one of the few practical tools to get out of it

• most ideas will never get you anywhere close to where you want to go if you look at them honestly

• being serious about reaching a 10x goal means you have to say no to and get rid of almost everything else

• “10x requires you to become uniquely masterful in a narrowing 20 percent wherein you produce something innovative, valuable, and of rare quality. […] To make something 10x better involves deep, deep work. Innovation occurs as you break everything down and put it back together in a simpler, easier, and better form.”

• this also means there is much less competition since hardly anyone is laser focused on nailing just one thing

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job board insights

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• interesting thread by a guy running https://sustainablejobs.nl

• job boards always seemed to me like one of the coolest businesses you can build but are insanely hard to get off the ground

podscan ideas

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• cool project by Arvid, he built a huge database of podcast transcripts and is now using AI to dig up business opportunities:

  https://ideas.podscan.fm

permission to change

• just a friendly reminder that just because you’ve been a specific kind of person for a while or were doing things a certain way, it doesn’t mean you have to keep going like this

• people will always try to push you towards the image they have of you. “but you’ve said…”, “but you’ve always…”, “I thought you’re not …”, “but since when do you…?”

• you’re allowed to pivot. You’re allowed to be inconsistent.

• in the words of Richard Feynman “You are under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago.”

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Talk soon,
Jakob