If you could live 2023 all over again, what would you do different? (lessons for 2024)
Murat ⚡
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I'm putting together a list to put on my wall:
What else would you add?
1/On Visualization:
+I'd would think hard and more often about the problem statement:
+What would I like to be great at?
+What would I like to be known for?
+What problem am I solving, who is it for, what is it for?
2/On Getting Started
+I'd care less about discipline and more about generating enthusiasm.
By painting an exciting picture of the future.
By priming myself to bring energy to the work.
3/On Action & Consistency:
+Less planning, more execution.
+Less pivoting, more compounding
Never building something that I'm not interested in improving over time.
4/On Focus & Outcomes
+I'd spend my days doing one of two things
1/ Building and Improving
2/ Talking to customers (1 to 1 marketing and selling)
More focusing on 20% of activities that drive 80& of values.
5/On Trends
+I'd worry less about the changing tech and trends, and worry more about the constant human nature.
+Technology changes, humans don't
6/On Positioning & Differentiation
+I'd express my raw, instinctual, spiky opinions more.
+I'd be more mission oriented, trying to make a difference.
+Be more confident with my unusual solutions for obvious problems
No more trying to fit the bill.
7/On Communication
+I'd do less people pleasing and more people alienating.
+I'd tell more interesting stories and less boring facts.
8/On Sharing
+I'd do less hoarding and more caring for others.
+I'd built sharing into my daily workflow.
+Education is the best form of marketing and it's a positive sum game.
9/On Outcomes & Clarity
+I'd develop a through-line across the user journey.
+I'd sell outcomes and not the processes or features.
+Measurable, quantifiable, time-bound results.
A goal to reach.
A story that resonates.
A new experience.
No more talking about a quarter-inch drill.
10/On Networking and Collaboration
+I'd try to be less of a lone genius and try harder to be part of an ambitious group of people.
+I'd be more involved with the communities around my interests.
New motto:
Send more DMs to do dope things with cool people.
11/On Clients
+I'd fire low quality, low pay clients faster to make room for better opportunities.
12/On Continuous Improvement
+I'd ship faster and more often for faster feedback loops and validation.
+Producing a large quantity of work in a short amount of time is the answer.
+I'd be more creative in collecting feedback & data.
No more developing things in my cabin for 6 months just to launch products no one is interested in.
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