don’t be discouraged

The story of Sylvester Stallone in 1975 sitting down to write a screenplay and, three and a half days later, emerging with the full script for Rocky:

“At that time, I must admit, my life was definitely on the wane, at least professionally, I was emotionally, spiritually, physically, bankrupt. So I had $106, rent was $300, I had a pregnant wife—you m

it took Mr Beast almost 9 years to start earning real money – his mom even made him enroll in community college (he lasted two weeks there)

if you keep going the right mentor or cheerleader shows up

the fallacy of “we tried that, didn’t work” via dhh:

no logical fallacy provides as much of an obstacle as “we tried that, didn’t work”. The fallacy that past failed attempts dictates the scope of what's possible.

That just because someone, somewhere, one time attempted something similar and failed, nobody else should try. That lowering our collectiv

from a founder:

“Momentum is a powerful thing

I genuinely think going from $10k to $200k MRR was way easier than going from 0 to $10K

Simply because back then we had slow progress and zero momentum”