Building a business is recursive.
There's no given problem to solve. No given customer. No given salary. You invent it all at once, and nobody pays you until you do. This is the daily pep-talk for that life.
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It's not at all important to get it right the first time. It's vitally important to get it right the last time.
A reminder that "rewrite" is a feature, not a failure. Solo means you're the only one who ever has to live with the code.
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The data that was there all along
Sometimes the bug isn't missing information — it's a display limit you set yourself and forgot about.
Make it work first, fix it later
The sequence matters more than the speed, and most founders get the sequence wrong.
The cost of inheriting someone else's assumptions
When you import someone else's data, you also import all the guesses they made and never admitted to.
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