Mitro Patrikainen
@mitro
Mitro Patrikainen
How to do great work by Paul Graham
When you’re writing your copy (for whatever product you’re selling), that means simply finding out what the people in your market are looking for - and simply reiterating that yes, your product is EXACTLY that.
In other words, confidently knowing they’re looking to buy - and they just need to know that you "get" their particular problems, and have a
Source: Derek Johanson, Why my shorter sales pages are winning in 2024
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”
- Cyril Connolly
- Cyril Connolly
Poetic Outlaws on Substack
Saying, “Charles was discouraged,” reveals your interpretation of what was going on. But saying, “Every morning Charles crawled out of bed and put his feet on the threadbare carpet, wondering if this would be the day that his life might change,” allows readers to draw their own conclusions.
Michael Hauge • Storytelling Made Easy: Persuade and Transform Your Audiences, Buyers, and Clients — Simply, Quickly, and Profitably
I believe that the key to success lies in knowing how to both strive for a lot and fail well. By failing well, I mean being able to experience painful failures that provide big learnings without failing badly enough to get knocked out of the game.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
- The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
You need to get this done because it gets in the way of you getting the next thing done. If you can’t see past the end of a particular project, it’s too easy for it to feel bigger and more important than it actually is.
Jason Fladlien • The Cult of Done
Great artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create. Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.
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