Everything I thought I knew about entrepreneurship a year ago was wrong, a lie, or incomplete
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Building mini-companies / side projects teaches you more than any course
It teaches you things related to engineering, marketing, and product. Things you could never learn as quickly any other way.
And on top of that, it does it well. In a lasting way.
Lessons learned the hard way stick better than ones explained on a whiteboard.
I'm convinced that if I knew exactly what I needed to do, 3 hours of work a day would be enough.
But since I don't, I have to put in 8 to 12 hours.
The price of ignorance.
Little by little, I can see the work I’ve put in over the past few months paying off.
It’s always the same.
A period of intense work where everything feels like a struggle and it seems like you’re not making any progress. That only pushes you to work harder.
I really do try to work smarter, not harder.
But fuck, I'm so dumb.
Right now, I’ve found a routine that’s working absurdly well for me:
3–4 hours of work in the morning, gym, lunch, more work, some downtime, a walk, dinner, a bit more downtime, and reading before bed.
Not all hours of the day are worth the same.
Mornings are way more productive.
There’s less noise, less friction, and a clearer head.
Choosing which problem to solve is one of the most important things, not the hours you work.
That’s where the biggest challenge lies: finding where you can add the most value and aggressively prioritizing it.
🇨🇭 The lie I was told before moving to Switzerland: "You need to speak German or French to work here".
False.
In tech, English is enough. If you're good, of course.
How dangerous it is to quit your job and focus on your projects.
Besides the obvious, the hardest part is that you lose some of that "pain" that pushed you to start a business.
You get comfortable and lose some of your motivation to work.
There’s no time like the first 2–3 hours after you wake up
It’s pure productivity.
After lunch, you’re already feeling lazy and sluggish.
By the afternoon, you’re tired and it’s getting dark.
At 3 a.m., you’re out of energy (even though that’s when the best ideas come)