Builder's Margin
Daniel VosTested productivity systems, real AI leverage, and more than one income stream, for creators and lean teams who want to cut the busywork and build what pays.
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The Monthly Report: Three Things My Numbers Changed My Mind About
Last month’s report had a seven-word line about where my new subscribers were not coming from: “Not my posts. Not search. Not email.” The first of those three was too strong.
I promised a monthly numbers report in my first post, and this i...
Didn't We Already Decide That? A Decision Log I Read Back and an Agent Drafts
“Didn’t we already decide that?”
Someone on a client’s team posted that in the project chat three weeks after a call I had been on. We had decided it. None of us, me included, could say exactly what we had decided or why. Searching the cal...
Nine Subscribers Looked Untraceable Until I Opened the Records
Earlier this month, a comment I had written under someone else’s Note 23 days before brought in a subscriber. Probably. A reader liked that old comment, and in my activity feed their timestamps sit six seconds apart.
I say probably because...
Before a Plan Leaves My Desk, I Write How It Failed, Then Change One Line
The rollout plan was finished, and I liked it. Before sending it to the client, I set a two-minute timer and wrote one line at the top of a blank page: It is the end of the rollout. This plan failed.
The first reason was on the page before...
I Added One Column to the Numbers I Check. Only Four Rows Ever Got Filled In.
The numbers I check every Friday now have one extra column. It is headed “What I did about it,” and most of its rows are still blank.
Four numbers ever earned an entry. The one I check first, every single week, never did.
I added the colu...
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I put a dollar figure on your busywork so you can cut it with numbers, not guilt. 15+ years in tech, from security researcher to director leading research and engineering teams. I show the work here, honest numbers and all.
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