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The Excitement Backlog

How do you keep going when you're not excited about what you're working on anymore?

Do The Thing

Actually doing the thing is the most important part of shipping the thing.

The Leftovers

Business owners have to think about three money buckets: what's coming in, what's going out, and —most importantly— the leftovers.

Finding Focus

Success comes from focusing on your niche and your tribe, rather than getting distracted by shiny new projects.

How It’s Going

The hardest part about building something is having patience. The second hardest is changing course.

Building an Atelier

I like newsletters so much that I'm making an app to manage your newsletters, if I can find the time between writing newsletters.

Making Time For Making

The hardest part of making a go of a side business is making time.

Focus On Customers Before They're Customers

In which Angelo realizes it's better to start by building the thing his customers want to pay for.

Constraints

Choosing enough over growth is hard. It means making harder decisions and doing the hard work of questioning your values. It means choosing first to build constraints, and then building value within them.

Better late than worse

Not screwing up may the obvious solution, but hindsight is 20/20, and foresight is tinted by rose-coloured glasses—so it's not a useful solution.

The Experiment: Can I Build a Million-Dollar Microbusiness?

It's January first, and I'm aiming to make 2024 the year that I built my side hustle into a thriving microbusiness.