The second build always ships faster

The second app didn’t need me to figure out distribution, App Store screenshots, or pricing for the first time. The first one had paid those costs already. The second one just felt fast -- but it was really the dataset compounding.

Reading and listening is great, but it doesn’t stick until you act on it. The lessons I remember three years later are almost never the ones I read once -- they’re the ones I tried, failed at, and changed my behaviour because of.

Before he wrote The Lean Startup, Eric was an engineer at IMVU pushing code to production fifty times a day, when most companies shipped once a quarter. Each push gave him real user data the same afternoon -- and the team improved faster than competitors waiting to ship the perfect version.

The build I shipped this year took half the time. Last year’s build did the slow learning for me -- the second one just got to skip that part. I genuinely think that’s how compounding actually feels: you don’t notice the curve, you just notice you’re moving faster.

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