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    1. Olly shares struggles that most bootstrapped founders can relate to. I want to address the "excitement of the early days gone" - "want to throw in the towel" - "flip-flopping on strategy" part ... @helloitsolly/1660956865457541122
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    All our projects get to this point: They feel like work! There's bugs, feature requests, technical debt, more things to do than time available. A grind. We succumb to the "more features, more users" fallacy. And then we do something even worse ...
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      We wake up every day with new ideas and add them to the top of our todo list! Our todo list becomes a monster that crushes us ... burnout. To avoid that I learned to discipline myself this way ...
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        There's strategy days, and then there's execution days. I take one day per month (sometimes two) to think of strategy. I take all the shower notes and morning ideas into account and decide what to work on next. The rest of the month I concentrate on executing...
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          Things get done. Backlog is only allowed to shrink. All ideas and whims go on a sticky note and have to wait. And payment notifications are turned off 😱. Yes! Work like a Swiss watch, not like a slot machine.