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Launching a New Business: Month 45 Update (opens the original)
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$791,285That’s a big number.It’s also the cumulative operating loss of my newest business, Trinity Builder Solutions, since we launched in January 2023.But there’s good news here too, folks. We’ll get to that in a moment.If you’ve been here from the beginning, you know starting TBS and starting this newsletter are closely related. In fact, one reason I started this newsletter was to “build in public,” sharing the
Local Acceleration: The Playbook (opens the original)
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When your longest-tenured team member looks you in the eye and tells you “we’ve never really focused on winning our market,” you listen.That was exactly what Carrie, a 14-year kitchen & bath CRATE veteran, said to me a few months back.And it hit me square between the eyes.Why did this land so poignantly? Because it was said with the utmost humility, and with a certain softness designed not to hurt my feelings. It was the most graceful way of saying “I think you’ve been wrong for a while now” tha
Just Working Smarter Won't Cut It (opens the original)
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It’s easy to fool yourself into thinking smart work is enough. Sometimes it is. If you’re big enough and you have momentum on your side, smart might carry you. If that’s not the case, smart alone will not get you where you want to go.A few weeks back I told you I was going back to work. I didn’t tell you what I’d been telling myself for years to avoid it.Join business owners who refuse to settle for med
On Letting Go (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking a lot about “letting go” lately.Perhaps dropping my daughter off at college last weekend had a lot to do with it.Is there anything harder, as a parent, than that last hug before leaving? Not sure. I’ve been parenting for 20 years across three kids, and man, that’s a rough hug.But you know what that last hug does? It allows her to turn around, as we stand there staring longingly at her back, and walk into the future that she’s been dreaming of for years. Without that hug, she n
The Part of My Morning I Refuse to Automate (opens the original)
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Ten years later, and my first task of the morning is still the same thing.Boring, yes. Effective, yes.The routine is a decade old. The post I wrote about it is three years old, and I still run it. So do a lot of my team members. I used to require it. I stopped, because it turns out not everyone wants to work the same way, and a system forced on someone rarely works.But I will admit, how I do it has changed. Half the steps are automated now with Claude Cowork. The other half you will have to pry
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