My First Million
The best business ideas come from noticing what's working and doing it better, faster, or for a different audience.
“Dance like no one's watching, build like everyone's waiting”
What It Means
Be creative and playful in your building process while recognizing that people need what you're creating
Why It Matters
Balances personal creative freedom with market responsibility and urgency
When It's True
When building products that solve real problems and have genuine market need
When It's Risky
When building purely for personal satisfaction without market validation
How to Apply
Maintain creative freedom in your building process
Remember that your work serves others
Balance playfulness with responsibility to users
Example Scenario
“A developer experiments with fun, unconventional approaches to building their SaaS product while staying focused on solving customer problems quickly”
Related Knowledge
Society wrongly stigmatizes intense work while celebrating intense practice in sports and music. Wor
We accept that mastery in any field requires intense practice and long hours.
High Authority vs Delegated Authority Model
Binary leadership approach where you either operate with complete top-down authority or delegate full decision-making au
Passion Project Connection Strategy
A relationship-building approach that focuses conversations on people's current passionate interests rather than their well-known achievements, creating deeper engagement and authentic connection.
Three-Stage Currency Adoption Framework
A currency must pass through three distinct stages to become truly functional: store of value, medium of exchange, and unit of account.
Systematically improve content creation skills through deliberate practice
By video 100, your content quality has improved dramatically through conscious iteration, and you no longer need external advice because you've developed your own judgment and skills.
Create a prestigious content creation university that becomes the Harvard of digital media education
10,000 students paying $25K/year, graduates highly sought after by companies and successful as independent creators