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Patrick McKenzie
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+1 on this advice. If investors/advisors aren't relevant to you, try peers instead. Feedback from people who know the story and have been following along is better than one-off drop-in feedback, and the discipline of reporting results monthly helps to ensure you have them.
"Isn't it more work when you have an infinite amount of work?" Then do the 15 minute version or the 5 minute version.

But the far more likely outcome is a founder banking a lot of months where they felt busy but nothing against main strategic priorities got accomplished.
So you want to force yourself to write "In June I was supposed to ship the website refresh and that didn't happen" and you want to make the space for one of your correspondents to say "Look you're getting in the operational weeds and that isn't growing sales by X%; exit weeds."
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Patrick McKenzie
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Things I have an extreme amount of aesthetic distaste for: Systems which have an obviously optimal play which civilians are largely unaware of and participants are unable to tell civilians about due to professional guild rules.

This is obviously an affront to justice.
One example I can actually discuss because it is explicitly not a professional interest: if you’re in the middle class, you have your IRA at a brokerage.

You might sensibly wonder “Hmm can I contribute to a Roth IRA this year.”

Your brokerage cannot tell you the true answer.
There is a formal answer, which is “Here is an IRS chart of income against contribution limits. If you have questions, speak to a tax adviser.”

This answer is so incomplete as to be false, and the falsity is largely available to folks wealthy enough to have tax advisors.
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Patrick McKenzie
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You don’t need permission to do hard things, but the world thinks you need permission to do hard things, and it will tell you this, and so many people who are capable of doing hard things have no demonstrable success at it because they haven’t received permission yet.
(There exist elements of the set of hard things that one factually does need permission for, but they’re exceptions rather than the rule. Writing a book, for example, is a hard thing; you can do it alone in a room with about $5 of materials.)
Is this operationalizable? One way: if you explicitly filter on “has X done a hard thing”, consider providing an escape hatch for folks with ability but who life hasn’t arranged explicit permission for yet.

Also, more licit opportunities for showable hard things a good thing.
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Patrick McKenzie
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This keeps happening to cryptocurrency enthusiasts, but is a well-worn attack within the capabilities of a non-technical teenager. medium.com/coinmonks/the-…

Take your phone number off your Gmail/etc accounts and use hardware or TOTP 2FA.
Incidentally, while the cryptocurrency community provides easy one-stop-shopping for high-value targets, once criminals develop a business process to exploit this they could plausibly expand into adjacent markets.

This *very much* includes startup founders, etc.
Ideally you do business with financial institutions which will not just give all the money irreversibly to anyone capable of spoofing your cell phone but strongly consider defense-in-depth against attacks like this.

Some friends/acquaintances of mine had near misses to similar.
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