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Good morning Launch Key 🚀 community!

Last week Tim Ferris reminded me of a great older post about not being late. He was talking about podcasts, but it applies to all types of technology. And more importantly to people.

We all have rationale for not starting, but the reality is - it’s not the technology holding us back.

Let's get into it.

Comment below and let me know if we’re on the right track.

Table of Contents

• Pull to Eject

• Modern Tools

• Old School Wisdom

• Free Knowledge

• Recommendations

• Visual Crapshoot

Pull to Eject

One of the worst reasons to not start something new is because you think it’s too late to use some form of technology.

Whether your idea will require words, images, video, or actual code - who cares how you build it? The AI hype machine has people worried about missing the boat on the new new thing. I’m telling you – your idea will stand on its merit – not the tech used to make it.

You’re reading this newsletter in a technology medium that got it’s start in 1971 when Ray Tomlinson sent the first email over Arpanet. Yes, email has become bloated - but it still delivers. Example: the Morning Brew sends out more than 4 million emails every day. Because they can count on it.

Tim Ferris was reminiscing in a recent newsletter that he worried he was too late when he started his podcast … in 2014.

Spoiler alert - he wasn’t.

But he shared a great post by Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly from the same time period that is worth a reread from us all.

Kelly shares my technology optimism outlook by looking forward to see just how good we have it today.

“There has never been a better time in the whole history of the world to invent something. There has never been a better time with more opportunities, more openings, lower barriers, higher benefit/risk ratios, better returns, greater upside, than now. Right now, this minute. This is the time that folks in the future will look back at and say, “Oh to have been alive and well back then!”

The point is that technology choice is not the reason you should wait to start whatever you’re dreaming about. Technology is just a tool. I’ve been saying this for decades. There’s always new shiny tech (see blockchain, AI, quantum etc) but real innovations solve problems in heretofore unseen combinations.

No less than Marc Andreessen chimes in with a similar outlook. And his optimistic view is that we are still in the early innings … of the internet. He believes that the more connected humans become the more innovation will blossom.

His premise is that the connectedness of the internet might launch 1000, or 10,000 or a million new truly, innovative, people who didn’t have that opportunity before.

Of course, that means you’re starting things and not just channel-surfing the silliness of the current technology.

Could Andreessen be talking about you?

Now go launch something 🚀 

Modern Tools

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Old School Wisdom

For years, Donald Miller’s business struggled to produce dependable, predictable results. Sadly, nobody had a step-by-step playbook for growing a business.

Still, over years of fits and false starts, Don grew his business from nothing to nearly 20 million dollars. In the end, he realized there were six key parts of a business, and if they were managed well, the business would fly far and fast.

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Visual Crapshoot