This week’s Founder Finds includes:

📱 An AI mobile app builder
📈 How Tally grew to $4M ARR
💎 How to justify premium prices
⚠️ Hidden costs of AI prototyping
⚙️ A fully automated AI newsletter
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Learning never stops for those who stay curious.

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⚙️ Fully Automated AI Newsletter shared by Josh Kubicki
How to build a fully automated daily newsletter with n8n and AI

📈 How Tally Grew to $4M ARR shared by Elie Steinbock
A blog post on Tally’s growth by focusing on simplicity and user experience

📱 Rork shared by Alper Tunga
An AI tool for building mobile apps

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🧿 Dru Riley added personalized action plans based on competitor moves to HeadsUp

📨 Elie Steinbock was featured on Indie Hackers

🤖 Eddie Forson is co-organizing an event around Claude Code

🎨 Wojtek Wozniak launched a course on vibe coding websites with Webflow

(📈 Pro) Ren Saguil is hosting a sales workshop for Trends Pro Members

❔ Ask Yourself

How To Justify Premium Prices?

A restaurant owner complained about $2 tortillas versus competitors’ 20-cent ones. The real problem was failing to tell customers about fresh tortillas trucked in every morning.

Here’s how to communicate value and justify premium prices:

• Craft the story behind why you do things differently that create quality
• Find unique processes that are expensive but under-communicated to customers
• Integrate this narrative everywhere customers interact with your brand to justify premium pricing

🛠️ Tools of the Week

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Why Are AI Prototypes Creating More Problems Than They Solve?

Teams using AI prototyping tools think they’re moving faster, but most are actually building technical debt.

Here’s how to not start from scratch later:

• Remember that AI generates code that works, not code that works well for production
• Apply the “disposable mindset” and treat prototypes like movie trailers, not the final film
• Document everything ruthlessly: known bugs, security gaps and AI hallucinations before they bite you

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👨‍💻 A free coding agent
🛠️ Claude Agent Skills
📱 A $2M/year app playbook
🤖 How to rank higher in ChatGPT?
🚀 Turning marketing channels into programs
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Test the riskiest assumption first.

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👨‍💻 Amp Free shared by Eddie Forson
An ad-supported, free coding agent

📱 $2M/Year App Playbook shared by Elie Steinbock
Lessons from scaling an AI app through paid ads, UGC and influencers

🛠️ Claude Agent Skills shared by Alexandre Kantjas
Reusable skills that let Claude handle specialized tasks

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🧿 Dru Riley added smart alert grouping to HeadsUp

🎞️ Philip Obosi opened early access for Vivo

⌨️ Elie Steinbock was featured in Business Insider

🥷 Josh Kubicki wrote about prompt injection in legal documents

💻 Eddie Forson wrote about coding with Claude 4.5 Sonnet

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How to Rank Higher in ChatGPT?

AI Chatbots now search the web first, then summarize results. Meaning your content could be featured in AI answers or completely ignored.

Here’s how to show up in AI search:

• Focus on the 5% that drives impact: build question-focused pages and optimize for citations
• Measure “Share of Answers” across multiple AI chatbots instead of traditional rank positions
• Do question research by targeting hundreds of related questions per page, not individual terms

🛠️ Tools of the Week

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How Can You Turn Marketing Channels Into Revenue-Building Systems?

Most founders manage SEO, email, paid ads and social media as separate channels. This is why growth feels like pushing water uphill instead of building momentum.

Do this instead:

• Turn channels into programs: unite multiple distribution methods around core content or themes
• Build systems like webinar programs that use social media, paid ads, email and partnerships to distribute one piece of content
• Focus on the five growth levers: awareness, sales, retention, revenue and operations instead of channel-specific vanity metrics

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This week’s Founder Finds includes:

⚙️ An n8n MCP server
📖 Storytelling in SaaS
🦾 An agentic AI crash course
🧠 How to get your brain to focus
🌴 6 principles of lifestyle businesses
➡️ And more…

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Do not cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.

🤓 Fav Finds

Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members

🦾 Agentic AI Crash Course shared by Alejandro Arango
A guide to learn agentic AI for real world applications

⚙️ n8n MCP shared by Elia Zane
An MCP server to build n8n workflows with AI

🧠 How to Get Your Brain to Focus shared by Jd Fiscus
A talk on harnessing focus for deeper work and more creativity

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🧿 Dru Riley added weekly competitor summaries to HeadsUp

⚡ Ren Saguil is hosting a series of sales workshops on Maven

💬 Elie Steinbock was featured in an interview on 20i

📺 Alexandre Kantjas reached 30,000 subscribers on YouTube

🎨 Paul Martin made a video on the redesign of Bondex

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Why Do Most Founders End Up Working More, Not Less?

The secret to lifestyle businesses is building systems that work without you:

• Build simple products with no maintenance required
• Price strategically to avoid support nightmares (too low) and consultant dependency (too high)
• Choose uncrowded markets where you can dominate without constant competition crushing margins

🛠️ Tools of the Week

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Why Are You Selling Features When Customers Buy Outcomes?

Most SaaS founders pitch “40% faster processing” and wonder why prospects don’t get excited.

Instead, use stories to close the gap between features and outcomes people actually want:

• Build a story bank with customer wins, personal struggles and company milestones. When people see themselves in your stories, they stop evaluating and start buying
• Tell three types of business stories: mission (why you started), vision (what success looks like) and milestones (what you’ve overcome)
• Show what’s at stake, what they want to learn, how you want them to feel and what they should do next

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✂️ How to avoid feature bloat
🤖 A context engineering guide
📈 Shutting down a $1.5M product
🎨 An AI UI and wireframe generator
🛠️ Should we say goodbye to startups?
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Momentum is easier to maintain than to build.

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🤖 Context Engineering Guide shared by Eddie Forson
Anthropic’s guide to effective context engineering for AI agents

🎨 UX Pilot shred by Alper Tunga
A tool to build UI designs and wireframes with AI

📈 Shutting Down a $1.5M Product shared by Elie Steinbock
How Fiscal.ai prioritized long-term vision over short-term revenue

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🧿 Dru Riley added an onboarding video to HeadsUp

💻 Jd Fiscus made a video on Claude Code custom status lines

🤝 Mike Williams is organizing an LA meetup on AI-powered marketplaces

🎨 Wojtek Wozniak is hosting a workshop on vibe coding websites with Relume

✔️ Sam McKay wrote about validating AI output

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Should We Say Goodbye to Startups?

Check out the three shifts reshaping tech business:

• Expect multi-product makers running 10+ tools for the same audience
• Use “influencer + maker” collaborations to get shared distribution and cross-promotion
• Make friends now as solo makers will struggle vs organized groups with combined audiences

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What Will Happen If You Start Removing Features?

64% of features are rarely used and actively slow down both development and user experience.

Here’s what you can do to avoid feature bloat:

• Frame feature removal as improvement, not loss: Slack celebrated removal of Stories
• Analyze usage frequency, user impact, maintenance cost, strategic alignment and opportunity cost
• Recognize zombie features draining dev time, confusing users and stealing focus from what matters

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💰 An interview with Justin Welsh
☁️ Cloudflare’s AI coding platform
🚀 Why ignore common VC advice
⚖️ How not to be defined by your job
💡 Disruption vs. incremental progress
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Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

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💰 $10M+ Solo Business shared by Paul Metcalfe
An interview with Justin Welsh about building a million-dollar one-person business

☁️ VibeSDK shared by Elia Zane
Cloudflare’s AI coding tool that lets you deploy your own vibe coding platform

🚀 Ignoring Common VC Advice shared by Shushant Lakhyani
How Gamma reached $50M ARR by raising little and staying lean

🧿 HeadsUp of the Week

Pipedrive is split testing their CTA from ‘Try it free’ to ‘Try 14 days free.’

Small change, massive psychology shift.

Advantages of 14 days?

Concrete details are more persuasive than abstract promises.

• ‘Try it free’ = vague commitment, easy to ignore
• ‘Try 14 days free’ = specific timeframe, creates urgency

This is conversion optimization 101, but most companies still get it wrong.

Spotted by HeadsUp competitor monitoring from Trends.vc

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🧿 Dru Riley added missed alert estimations to HeadsUp

🎙️ Sam McKay recorded a podcast on Microsoft Fabric

🦾 Alexandre Kantjas is hosting a workshop on AI agents

💿 Darren Travel released a new music album

💻 Elie Steinbock made a tutorial on running multiple coding agents locally

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Could “Being Disruptive” Sabotage Your Startup’s Success?

Don’t try to change the world. Focus on building a profitable business instead:

• Most people don’t like big changes. Focus on solving their specific problems.
• It’s okay to have smaller goals. They are easier to reach and can still be very rewarding.
• Make things that are valuable, not disruptive. It’s okay to make small improvements instead of trying to change the world.

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Does Your Life Have Meaning Outside of Work?

If you feel like your job defines you, try to find meaning in life beyond your job:

• Many people tie their identity to their work, often due to a lack of other sources of meaning like religion and community.
• A “dream job” is not the only path to happiness. A “good enough” job can provide the means and time to pursue other fulfilling activities outside of work.
• To diversify your identity beyond work, think about your values and how you spend your time. Ask yourself: What would you do if you couldn’t do your current job?

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This week’s Founder Finds includes:

🥱 Why you’re so tired
🔍 An AI SEO playbook
💭 11 pieces of life advice
✨ A curated list of Mac apps
🤖 Cursor instructions for GPT-5
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Each try brings you closer to success.

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✨ Awesome Mac Apps shared by Elia Zane
A curated list of great macOS software

🔍 AI SEO Playbook shared by Ben Fisher
How to optimize your content for AI search

🤖 GPT-5 Cursor Instructions shared by Alper Tunga
Custom Cursor Agent instructions optimized for GPT-5

🧿 HeadsUp of the Week

Notion just quietly launched ‘Agents’ that can actually DO tasks for you.

This is the first major productivity tool to go fully autonomous.

Agents can manage your projects, update databases and handle workflows while you sleep.

The shift from ‘AI assistant’ to ‘AI employee’ is happening faster than we expected.

Spotted by HeadsUp competitor monitoring from Trends.vc

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🧿 Dru Riley added backlink, keyword and domain authority tracking for competitors to HeadsUp

🌱 Jason A Erickson hit 5,000 monthly organic search visits with Simply Lawn Directory

🎓 Paul Martin collected 50 resources for learning Web3

🖥️ Yuyu launched What Is My Screen Size on Product Hunt

🚀 Paul Metcalfe launched Founder

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What 11 Things Could Have Saved You Years of Struggle?

One bad thing can ruin your entire month. But here’s how good and bad can coexist:

• Replace perfection with interest
• Build competence to eliminate fear
• Remember your choices belong only to you

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Why Are You So Tired?

Here’s why nowadays everybody’s so tired:

• Modern life is chemically draining: Screens block sleep chemicals (melatonin), while work demands and decisions build up brain toxins that need proper sleep to clear out.
• Our brains weren’t built for this: We make lots of decisions daily vs our ancestors’ simple choices. Each decision creates chemical buildup (glutamate) that exhausts us, even without physical work.
• We fight natural rhythms: Everyone has a natural sleep pattern (chronotype), but modern schedules force a one-size-fits-all approach. Plus, we block tiredness signals with caffeine, leading to harder crashes.

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AI tools are “intelligent units” that go beyond task automation. They can create original work: market analysis, risk assessment, investment insights and more. This helps employees focus on more complex and creative aspects of their jobs.

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🤖 What jobs are most affected by AI?

Customer Service Agents
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Digital Marketers
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Salespeople
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🚀 How can you survive the adoption of AI?

The first thing that you can do is use AI tools. This is the reality. If you rely on yourself only, you may lose to a colleague that knows how to use AI to do tasks faster and better than you.

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Customer Service Agents

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• Yuma offers automated AI customer service for Shopify merchants.
• Balto offers real-time call guidance in customer support call centers.
• Kustomer is a customer service platform with AI chatbots and assistants.

Digital Marketers

Build strategies that resonate with audiences based on your domain expertise and cultural knowledge. Use consumer psychology to adapt your marketing efforts to world events and trending topics.

AI tools for digital marketers:

• Fullstory uses AI to analyze customer behaviour.
• Customers.ai offers in-depth visitor insights and remarketing.
• Albert.ai is an autonomous AI agent that builds and optimizes marketing campaigns.
• Surfer SEO uses AI to boost organic traffic, increase visibility and improve your rank in search results.
• Brand24 uses AI to track mentions across social media, news, blogs, videos, forums, podcasts, reviews and more.

Salespeople

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AI tools for salespeople:

• Regie.ai is an all-in-one hub for AI sales outreach.
• Bland AI helps you build, test and scale AI phone agents.
• Reply.io sets up outreach sequences, handles prospect replies and books meetings.
• B2B Rocket offers AI agents that can dial your leads, engage them and book meetings.
• Oliv is an AI sales rep that does pre-meeting research, takes live notes and updates CRM after every call.

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🎁 The best AI apps of 2024
🦾 A guide to building AI agents
🌐 An AI agent Chrome extension
💡 Why challenge core assumptions
🌱 How to improve all aspects of your life
➡️ And more…

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Beginning is always the hardest.

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🦾 Building Effective Agents shared by Sam McKay
A guide on building AI agents from Anthropic

🎁 a16z Apps Unwrapped shared by Grady Laksmono
The best AI apps of 2024 according to a16z

🌐 Do Browser shared by Stewart Townsend
An AI agent Chrome extension to automate complex tasks

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

👁️ Elie Steinbock made a video about app QA with computer vision

👨‍💻 Sam McKay is open sourcing Prompt Array

🎨 Yuyu built a color converter

🖼️ Shushant Lakhyani wrote a Canva guide

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How to Improve All Aspects of Your Life?

Here’s how tiny changes in your day can make a big difference in your life:

• Start with one good habit and make it a routine. Once that’s easy, add more good habits. Don’t change everything at once.
• Find a habit that makes it easier to do other good things. If you start exercising, you might also find it easier to eat healthy and sleep better.
• Instead of forcing yourself to make good choices, let your good habit lead the way. If you drink water when you wake up, let that help you choose a healthy breakfast.

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🛠️ Tools of the Week

🎨 Relume — Use AI for web design

🔎 Osum — Perform market research with AI

🎞️ ​Gling.ai​ — Let AI edit your videos

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Are You Wrong About Your Customers?

Traditional “best practices” like $.99 pricing aren’t always optimal.

Canva found charging $15 instead of $14.99 performed better.

The point is… Challenge your core assumptions by running experiments, as market behaviors and customer preferences often change and defy conventional wisdom.

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❓ What You’ll Learn

• How to transform existing content for AI?
• How to get 13x better conversion rates?
• What’s the pay-to-play future of AI search?
• What will be the role of voice search?
• How do AI platform preferences differ from traditional search?
  

💎 Why It Matters

AI search is becoming the go-to way for billions of people to shop, learn and more.

🔍 Problem

AI searches are on track to overtake traditional search (Google) by 2027.

💡 Solution

Answer engine optimization (AEO) makes brands visible in AI-generated responses.

🏁 Players

• Promptwatch • Real-time tracking with conversion attribution. Booking.com client.
• PromptMonitor • Affordable multi-platform tracking.
• Profound • Tracking 9+ platforms. $20M from Kleiner Perkins.
• AthenaHQ • Ex-Google/DeepMind team. Y Combinator W25. $2.1M raised.
• Peec AI • Marketing analytics with percentage visibility metrics.
  

🔮 Predictions

1. AI search will overtake traditional search by late 2027. Traditional search will drop 25% by 2026.
2. The AEO market will reach $7.3 billion by 2031. Growing 34% annually from $886 million today.
3. Voice will become the primary interface. Local searches will shift to voice-first as smart speakers proliferate.
4. Platforms like ChatGPT and Claude will introduce transaction fees for purchase-intent searches. Pay-to-play for product visibility.
   

☁️ Opportunities

1. Optimize your own content for AI search. Citations improve visibility up to 40%. Adding statistics boost another 40%.
2. Build optimized content creation tools. Combine traditional SEO with AEO capabilities. See Frase, Copy.ai and Surfer.
3. Launch an AEO agency. Only 22% of marketers track AI mentions. Charge $4,000-13,000/month.
4. Target niche markets with design concessions. Build AEO tools exclusively for Shopify’s 2.3 million stores. Local businesses managing multiple locations is a great niche too. Generic AEO platforms can’t match specific features without degrading the experience for other users.
5. Build a browser extension showing AI visibility scores. Make the Keywords Everywhere extension for the AEO age.
   

🔑 Key Lessons

• Multi-platform optimization is essential. Traditional search engines will still be relevant for a long time. Integration trumps isolation. AEO complements traditional SEO, doesn’t replace it.
• A lot of traditional SEO tactics will transfer. Schema markup helps AI understand content.
  

😠 Haters

“AEO is just SEO with a fancy name.”
Lily Ray argues techniques overlap. But AI synthesis requires different strategic thinking than ranking for keywords. AEO uses different ranking factors than Google. Citation patterns and confidence scores don’t exist in traditional SEO.

“AI companies will shut down AEO like Google killed link farms.”
It seems like they are not incentivized. They will most likely get in on the transactional actions. 

“AI won’t overtake Google. It has AI overviews in the search.”
It will overtake traditional search. What do you picture when you hear “traditional search”? We bet it’s Google.

🔗 Links

1. From 2 to $3M ARR • Tally founders explain how ChatGPT became their #1 referral source.
2. AEO vs SEO Explained • Industry can’t agree on terminology for AI optimization.
3. Answer Engine Optimization Is The New SEO • Learn how AI chat is converging with search.
4. Proven AEO Optimization Case Studies • See how AI-sourced visitors convert at 27% compared to just 2.1% from standard search traffic (13x better).
5. AI Discoverability • Read how you can get ChatGPT to recommend your brand.
   

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• (📈 Pro) Which SEO giants are making major AEO acquisitions?
• (📈 Pro) Which industries need vertical AEO?
• (📈 Pro) How does voice change everything?
• (📈 Pro) What ranking factors does AEO use?
• (📈 Pro) What threatens traditional SEO distribution?
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This week’s Founder Finds includes:

🌱 36 life lessons
🚀 A list of launch platforms
💬 An AI voice dictation tool
⛰️ How to make better career choices
🍌 A collection of Nano Banana use cases
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Execution is getting easier. Attention is getting harder.

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💬 Typeless shared by Shushant Lakhyani
An AI voice dictation tool with real-time editing

🚀 Launch Platforms List shared by Shivam
10 launch platforms to get your first SaaS customers

🍌 Awesome Nano Banana Images shared by Alper Tunga
A collection of images and prompts made with Nano Banana

🧿 Guess the Company

This scheduling platform just replaced “Custom Pricing” on their Enterprise plan with actual numbers. Tiny copy change that sends a big signal about who they want as customers.

They realized they can save time and energy by filtering out people who won’t pay their minimum rates upfront.

Can you name the company?

1. Calendesk
2. Clockwise
3. Calendly
4. Doodle

Don’t cheat: You can read more about this here.

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🧿 Dru Riley improved feedback collection for alerts in HeadsUp. 

⚙️ Jd Fiscus made a video on building an AI-powered social media scheduler

📨 Elie Steinbock posted a customer case study for Inbox Zero

🗣️ Alper Tunga became a representative for Kombai

✍️ Knight posted his August recap

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What Would You Tell Your Younger Self About Life?

Sam Altman turned 30 and distilled a decade of experience into 36 life lessons that challenge how most people think about work, relationships and taking risks.

Here’s what stands out:

• Take calculated risks, especially early in your career
• Work extremely hard but not so hard that life passes you by
• Choose truly close friends over hundreds of acquaintances time is limited
• Remember that youth is valuable, so don’t waste it overthinking every decision

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

💲 Reply.io — Automate sales outreach

🎞️ Zubtitle — Edit social media videos fast

📊 Julius AI — Analyze your data with computational AI

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How Do You Know If You’re Doing The Wrong Thing?

Here’s how to not get trapped into optimizing the wrong life path:

• Add randomness to your career path early on
• Recognize when you’re climbing a hill you don’t want to reach the top of
• Resist the lure of immediate upward steps when you can see a better hill in the distance

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