Take action, don’t wait

Have you ever met someone that has a bunch of ideas? Hint: if you’re reading this blog post, yes, you have met me and I have plenty of ideas in the backlog 😁. This is why I have a whole page dedicated to documenting my ideas.

A book review: Million Dollar Weekend by Noah Kagan

Let’s start with the author: Noah Kagan is a founder of AppSumo who also worked at companies like Intel, Facebook, and Mint. He shared stories on marketing, businesses, and personal improvement tips. Noah is known for his transparency about his failures and successes in the business world.

Noah emphasizes the importance of speed and iteration. He is all about pushing the minimum viable product (MVP) out the door immediately. Create and test in the real world as fast as possible.

Most people: Overthink first, act later. Every successful entrepreneur: Act first, figure it out later.

This is true, overthinking has stopped me from working on this blog, my YouTube channel, and other ideas for years. It seemed like a good idea to think about every little detail…

“Overthinking seems like the “smart” way to launch, but it’s far less effective. Super-successful people do the opposite—they take action first, get real feedback, and learn from that, which is a million times more valuable than any book or course. And quicker!”

For better of worse, here I am writing this imperfect book review. Recently I have also launched a directory of software engineering blogs without overthinking. It seemed like a good idea and I did my best to launch it with as very little thought as possible.

Only time will tell. My goal with any self-help book is to implement at least one suggestion from the book. In this case, I am going to stop overthinking about go for whatever seems like a good idea.

I like having a conversation with my books hence why I am writing blog posts about the books that I read. In the future I may revise this review or follow up with another update based on my experience with implementing Noah’s recommendations.

Yes, I do recommend picking up a copy of Noah’s book if you’re interested in validating business ideas quickly. It was a good read 👍.