my war on mediocrity

firing 200 employes from 2020-2023

#mediocrity creeps up on you slowly, but surely, you won't even realize it. to me, I mostly blame 1 main factor contributing to my professional mediocrity in the last 3 years: #hiring #employees.

Most employees are not #highperformers, the simple litmus to this is that if they would, they wouldn't seek the #comfort of a job and would maximize their earnings starting their own business.

Hiring employees and believing their #interview lies only to be disappointed when it came time to deliver had me lower my standards and subconsciously lie to myself. Even when the signs would be obvious, I'd keep on believing in my employee's low-performance standards. Client campaigns would suffer AND I would be distracted hiring some more and delivering more motivational speeches just to keep performances a 7/10.

This kept me away from building a moat in trying out new software, being technical and innovating, which is what matters in the #AI age.

But hell, I'd sell this 200+ employee companies one day, right? Nah, no offers came and growth remained stagnant. It's impossible to keep bootstrap growth up if you're much invested in HR and innovation is 7.5/10.

So I decided to let go of everyone, rewrite my plans from scratch and aim for the "one-man billion-dollar company" Sam Altman has preached. So far, so good.

Instead of mindlessly outsourcing, I doubled down on my god-given talents, hyper-optimized my productivity, and now have AI agents run the show. My profit margin has increased by 1250% and so has my growth. I'll never look back from there. I'm playing in the realm of truth (no funding) and can only scale exponentially from there.