In a startup, you should seek out activities that seem hard, boring, annoying, and unscalable. The highest-value tasks are often hiding amongst them, and no one else has noticed because they seem unappealing on the surface.

Apr 4, 2022 · 4:33 PM UTC

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1000% I’ve always found that one “little” annoying thing done consistently becomes the main driver of growth 🤘
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That’s a great sales pitch to delegate the boring work to others.
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That is why consistent pragmatism will take you nowhere other than consistent mediocrity. You need to act on things that appear neither important nor urgent, it is those activities that can bring the highest impact and value to the business.
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I often think about the strategy @paulg lays out in Hackers and Painters: when there are two equally valuable features to build, always choose the harder one, because it intrinsically gives you a competitive advantage.
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You might like this: paulgraham.com/schlep.html
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Any example of how this can be beneficial or be of high value?
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Yeaaa
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This is why I like hanging around you at twitters, because you understand the rules, constraints, complexity, history, pathfinding, ect. This rule you are talking about is rule #1010101 : Flip Business Structure. Skilled focus on problem areas, newbs lead high level task.
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I meant to say, focusing talent on the weakest links. While allowing newbs to work on high level tasks supervised.
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