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Why I quit "The Strive"

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Why I quit "The Strive" Everyone I Know Is Doing The Strive and Nobody Looks Happy JA Westenberg Apr 10, 2026 17 5 Share Photo by Shutter Speed on Unsplash I spent about a decade waking up at 6am and checking my follower count before I brushed my teeth. Refreshing analytics while the coffee brewed, reading Y Combinator essays, networking on Twitter and trying to reverse-engineer what made people break out. I’d look at every piece of creative work I produced and ask “will this scale?” Every night, I’d calculate the gap between where I was and where Mark Zuckerberg was at my age, or Marc Andrees

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