Jason Lemkin: commitment

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…I'm working incredibly hard. I am. The original idea was create this chill newsletter life. I'm just going to write a newsletter once a week. Life's going to be good. And it's just hard to pass up on really cool opportunities and do more, help it grow bigger. I couldn't resist. So, yeah, I'm working and that should be hard. And that should be all of us though. If you're not feeling what you said or even a version of what I said, then you're not living the AI dream today. It is more work. It should be tiring. Even if it's better in some ways, it is just more work. But this is the most exciting time of our lifetimes to be in software. I mean, good God. I can't even code Lenny, and I've built 12 apps on Replit in the last 150 days used by a million times. I've been waiting 10 years for some of these folks to build some of these apps. I just did it myself, right? I literally, just when I was in London, I built a whole app where you can practice selling Harvey, Cursor, Replit, and ChatGPT Enterprise, and it works. This wasn't even possible at the start of the year, was it? So, these are magical times. And the fact that we can run an eight figure business with three people and 20 agents, it's like, get excited or go join one of these really slow growing... My advice is pick one of two paths today. Either be working harder like even you and I are. We don't have to. Or honestly, I will say the truth is there are a thousand unicorns born in 2021. 800 of them are growing pretty slowly. We'll never IPO, may not have an exit, but they're okay with 8% or 15% growth. If you don't want to be on the journey we talked about, I'm not judging. I get it. We're humans, right? We have families. Not all of us are obsessed. I think I'm obsessed. I think you've become more obsessed. If that's not you, join something more slow growing. They still need people. Not as many, they still need people. But I would pick a lane for next year. Don't pretend that there's this middle path going to start because it don't exist in GTM. And I don't think it exists in product or engineering either. I love just how excited you are about this. Just like you could tell on Twitter just how fun this is for you, just learning and sharing. And I love that you're sharing it, but I think it's just a symptom of you're just so excited about what's happening and what you're learning and it's just like you can't help but share it. I'm in the same way. I'm just like, "Oh shit, I go to this really cool thing. I got to tweet about it."…

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