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February recap: Make a little progress - by Alfred Lua

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Imagine you are at the base of a mountain. You are trying to figure out how to get to the top. But you can only see the next three to four steps ahead because of a fog. Most steps will be in the wrong direction, and you might have to often retrace your steps and climb back down. What do you do? Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong shared the above analogy about finding product-market fit but I think it applies to many aspects of life. His advice: So you have to just take steps into the unknown. And when you take three steps, another three steps will be revealed ahead of you, and sometimes you’ll end up on some local maximum. You’ll have to retrace your steps or whatever, or you come to a cliff. But most people in life don’t take the steps into the fog, into the unknown, because it’s scary. Being stuck is, to me, the most frustrating experience. I don’t know what to do, and every option seems bad. Even though I’m stationary and not moving forward, I feel like I’m moving backward—which feels

Imagine you are at the base of a mountain. You are trying to figure out how to get to the top. But you can only see the next three to four steps ahead because of a fog. Most steps will be in the wrong direction, and you might have to often retrace your steps and climb back down. What do you do? Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong shared the above analogy about finding product-market fit but I think it applies to many aspects of life. His advice: So you have to just take steps into the unknown. And when you take three steps, another three steps will be revealed ahead of you, and sometimes…

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