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The most valuable problem to pursue is the hardest one someone is genuinely positioned to solve.

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ambition
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ambition How much to take on and how hard to push: superlinear returns to effort, focus, slack time, and procrastination.

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What Justin Jackson actually said

  1. Justin Jackson Canadian bootstrapper and writer on small software businesses
    Doing "the hard thing" means pursuing the highest-value problem you can find that still sits inside your zone of expertise; the hardest problem you're personally in a position to win.

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