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13 mistakes I made as a first-time founder
It's been 5 years since I started my business, and I made every mistake in the book. Here are the top 13 mistakes I made.
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July 2023

There’s no such thing as a perfect business
How to decide what to "fix" in your business
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June 2023

The Day I Became a Reader
Every morning I get out of bed.
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Hidden Trap of Thinking: Thinkism
In school, I learned how to write cheques.
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Why I stopped learning on my own?
Photo by Simon Weisser on Unsplash
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May 2023

How to scale a one-person business
If you're running a one-person business and need help scaling it, here's how you do it.
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April 2023

March 2023

I used to work in a library
From 2012 to 2014, I worked as a customer service officer at the British Council Library.
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February 2023

Memory dividends
My wife and I fought a lot about my photo habit (or lack thereof).
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I don't know
Admit it. We don't know shit about most things and are barely informed to give an opinion about something. But whenever someone poses a question on…
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You don't have to be world-class
Most of us won't be the next Tiger Woods or Michael Jackson. Or Ernest Hemingway or Oprah, for that matter. And that's OK.
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The difference between a "like" and a "heart"
Don't I look sexy in this photo? Time to share it on Facebook.
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